Quotes About Manipulation

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Everyone on 'The Apprentice' hates each other. They put you in a room, and they don't give you anything to do. They leave you there for 10 hours... they don't give you any food or water, and you start getting angry and arguing with each other.

The heel runs the match.

Politics isn't about helping people, it's about maintaining whatever people have got, whatever it takes to maintain their position at the expense of us.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

Demagogues always have something to hide.

There are women, returned my uncle, some of them of the most admired, who are slaves to a demoniacal love of power. The very pleasure of their consciousness consists in the knowledge that they have power--not power to do things, but power to make other people do things. [Uncle; Flight of the Shadow]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.

The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!"...