Quotes About Manipulation

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

What's this for?' I said. And this veck replied, interrupting his like song an instant, that it was to keep my gulliver still and make me look at the screen. 'But,' I said, 'I want to look at the screen. I've been brought here to viddy films and viddy films I shall.

They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.

When Quiggin ingratiated himself with people—during his days as secretary to St. John Clarke, for example—he was far too shrewd to confine himself to mere flattery. A modicum of bullying was a pleasure both to himself and his patrons.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

The point is: control is often more of an illusion than a reality.

A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.

the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend!

And she took in Lizzie Greystock, whom she hated almost as much as she did sermons, because the admiral's wife had been her sister, and she recognised a duty. But, having thus bound herself to Lizzie, — who was a beauty, — of course it became the first object of her life to get rid of Lizzie by a marriage.

The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive.

But there was no coaxing Roger over now, or indeed ever: he was a wilful, headstrong, masterful man; a tyrant always though never a cruel one; and accustomed to rule his wife and household as despotically as he did his gangs of workmen. Such men it is not easy to coax over.

When a man says to you, "Let us be candid with each other," you feel instinctively that he desires to squeeze you without giving a drop of water himself.

but she smiled and whispered, and made confidences, and looked out of her own eyes into men's eyes as though there might be some mysterious bond between her and them — if only mysterious circumstances would permit it. But the end of all was to induce some one to do something which would cause a publisher to give her good payment for indifferent writing, or an editor to be lenient when, upon the merits of the case, he should have been severe. Among

She has something else - a great deal else, said Alice Perrers' soft laughing voice from the corner, and if you ladies are too stupid to see it, the men won't be. Thanks to God that the King is short-sighted, I can fill his entire vision - and shall.

Under every rock lurks a politician.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he must be ignorant and a rogue.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Trusting people, the kind who are not on their guard and do not take precautions, because it is always easy to get away with wronging them.

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I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..

Do you always make things up? Always. Why? Michael shrugged. 'I want to deceive him just enough to make him want me.' What's that from? Blanche DuBois. In Streetcar.

De prikkelende beelden waarmee de maatschappij ons voortdurend confronteert hebben geen enkel ander doel dan fantasieën in ons wakker te roepen waardoor ons denken wordt verhinderd, waardoor wij verdoofd door het leven sjokken als slaven van onze hormonen

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.