Quotes About Manipulation

unthinkingly exposed themselves to so much deception that they do not even realize they are being deceived.

There are always people who like to put their paws on your back.

Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen gray eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.

The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.

In questo nostro mondo non conta quel che si fa», disse amaramente il mio amico. «Importa più quel che si riesce a far credere alla gene di aver fatto. Ma lasciamo stare.»

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind," he continued, more brightly, after a pause.

There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

If you want to be successful, Sayuri, you must be sure that men's feelings remain always under your control.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can see.

Una vez hubo un matemático que dijo que el álgebra era una ciencia para la gente perezosa, puesto que uno no conoce el valor de X,pero opera con él como si lo conociese. En nuestro caso, X representa a las masas anónimas, al pueblo. La política es el arte de hacer operaciones con esta X sin preocuparse por conocer su naturaleza real, mientras que hacer historia consiste en dar a X el valor exacto que debe tener en la ecución.

Die Geschichte hat uns gelehrt, dass man ihr häufiger mit der Lüge als mit der Wahrheit dienen muss, denn ihr Material, der Mensch, ist träge und muss vor jeder neuen Stufe seiner Entwicklung erst vierzig Jahre durch die Wüste geführt werden. Und man muss ihn durch die Wüste treiben mit Drohungen und Lockungen, mit erlogenen Schrecken und erlogenem Trost, damit er sich nicht vorzeitig zur Ruhe setzt und mit der Anbetung goldener Kälber vergnügt.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

JIM, gets up: Chris would never know how to live with a thing like that. It takes a certain talent . . . for lying. You have it, and I do. But not him.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

A last trick is to become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect.

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?

She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Destroying us. You are constructing us. It's yourselves that you are destroying.

In the next room Baby Kochamma heard the noise and came to find out what it was all about. She saw Grief and Trouble ahead, and secretly, in her heart of hearts, she rejoiced.

The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.

Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes.