Quotes About Manipulation

If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it.

In despair, she gave up on coercion and tried to manipulate him psychologically. When he behaved badly, she turned her back to him and began walking out of the room. The threat of abandonment made him panic. He stopped whatever he was doing and ran after Stephanie for a hug and reassurance. Nim learned to sign "sorry," and did so often.

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

The man who enlists into the service for a consideration, and deserts the moment he receives his money but to repeat the play, is bad enough; but the men who manipulate the grand machine and who simply make the bounty-jumper their agent in an outrageous fraud are far worse. They are beneath the worms that crawl in the dark hidden places of earth.

When pundits and strategists claim "attack ads work," they mean it in the most cynical of terms. As Ipsos Reid researcher Andrew Grenville told the Vancouver Sun: "Attacks ads can often work in the short term. They can give you a short boost. But they reduce the number of people who want to vote. They reduce participation in the democratic process. They poison the system.

Who cares if she called you?" Veblen cried out. There was a time when abreacting to her mother was out of the question, untenable. The slightest ripple between them terrified her. She was aware that her mother had trained her to turn herself inside out, like a pocket to be inspected for pilfered change.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

I could run, but he would find me. He would take me back to 623 Daisy Lane and make everyone who lives there pay. He would make everyone there pay even if he didn't find me. I belong to him. I'm his little girl. All I have to do is be good.

Ray makes me shower once a week and I hate coming out of the bathroom. I hate knowing he's waiting for me, that he will rub his hands and himself all over me and whisper things. His hands used to make me cry, but now I'm used to them. The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.

I will find him one, a beautiful little stupid girl, as dumb as the one at 623 Daisy Lane used to be and show her to him. He will want her, with her little limbs and happy face and solid, live flesh. She will become the new Alice and he will want her so much he will forget all about me. Kill me to teach her a lesson, probably, and then move on. Yes, that is what will happen. What must happen.

Building was profoundly connected with two crucial elements in the dynamic of Roman society: the manipulation of popular support, and the ability to entertain lavishly. Erecting public buildings and subsidising public leisure were considered so potentially politically seductive that at various times legislation was enacted to curtail involvement in such schemes by anyone outside the imperial family.

Black Hawk was taken on a tour of cities after his capture. I read his autobiography as soon as I could. And I remembered the line he said: "How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

for the Germans, this moment was exactly what they had been hoping for. Their master plan to send Lenin to Petrograd to take Russia out of the war was paying off even better than they had imagined.

deflect any political challenge to established privilege and authority. The general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience" through a degraded mass culture, manipulative political elections (or "manufactured consent"), and a mind-numbing, conformist system of thought control via the mass media.4

You knew what I wanted." "And you knew what I wanted." "Yeah, to make yourself feel pretty at someone's agony. Fuck you.

History is written by the future, and therefore distorted at its start.

no trap can be successful without uncounsciously cooperation from a victim. No one forces the mouse to seek cheese in a mousetrap.

I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Somos peones en un juego de otros.

Porque la religión es la mayor forma de engaño inventada por el hombre.

Y supo de mujeres capaces de desmontar con minuciosidad de relojero los resortes que mueven a un hombre.