Quotes About Manipulation

I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all the time - I might get out of that ticket. Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.

There are dangers to riding the tiger of populism.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

If you can steal an idea in someone's mind, why can't you plant one there instead?

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

He thought film functioned the way fascism does, inserting itself into a culture so quietly that one barely has time to notice that everything has changed.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes." (Jugurthine War 86.3)

Jugurtha:) That it was a venal city, and would soon perish, if it could but find a purchaser!

Kallioviski gave a thin smile as he thought, Oh world, beware of clever sheep. They are the truly dangerous ones, for they understand the stupidity of the flock, know just how easy it is to lead the people to slaughter.

People are always busy in trying to manipulate and dominate others!

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

You're growing up. All you need to remember is that nothing changes. New technology, new markets, global interconnectivity, doesn't matter. It's still the rulers and the ruled. The fleecers and the fleeced." "Which are you?" "I'm a piece of expensive equipment. You, too. Maybe not so expensive. [...]

The narcissist has to condition his human environment to refrain from expressing criticism and disapproval of him, or of his actions and decisions. He has to teach people around him that any form of disagreement, however mild and minor, throws him into frightful fits of temper and rage attacks and turn him into a constantly cantankerous and irascible person.

The narcissist flaunts his charitable nature as a bait. He impresses others with his selflessness and kindness and thus lures them into his lair, entraps them, and manipulates and brainwashes them into subservient compliance and obsequious collaboration. People are attracted to the narcissist's larger than life posture – only to discover his true personality traits when it is far too late. "Give a little to take a lot" – is the narcissist's creed.

I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the strings and I have no choice but to comply.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Or I might be able to catch one, a little girl for example, and half strangle her, three quarters, until she promises to give me my stick, give me soup, empty my pots, kiss me, fondle me, smile to me, give me my hat, stay with me, follow the hearse weeping into her handkerchief, that would be nice. I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

Language is best used where it is most efficiently abused.

Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.

Women misjudged his pathology because of his prolific brain-games. He used gaslighting techniques to convince her she had a break with reality. Some survivors called it 'The Ultimate Mind Screw'--sending prominent female executives, attorneys, and doctors into mental institutions to recover from him. Coercion, psychological warfare techniques and Stockholm Syndrome symptoms have left survivors sawed off at the emotional knees by a smooth-talking and ear-to-ear grinning psychological terrorist.

Por qué el voto de quienes no tienen criterio ni educación ni cultura vale lo mismo que el de quienes sí la tienen?, ¿por qué un voto obtenido con un revólver en la cabeza o lavando el cerebro de la gente con publicidad o comprado con cincuenta mil pesos, vale igual que un voto expresado en libertad? Pregúntaselo a los defensores de la democracia. Esa es la gran perversidad, pero esto no se puede decir.

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies.