Quotes About Manipulation

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

If I can just get him in Kotoamatsukami, I can make Lord Fugaku tell everyone the coup is off. And I can make Fugaku himself believe from the bottom of his heart that it was his own idea.

The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie, or the bully lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it—while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show "I can say what I want when I want to." The power lie conjures a different reality and demands that you choose between your experience and the bully's demands:

Putin wanted to rule the world, or a part of it, from the shadows.

But reason was helpless against demagogy.

Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.

There were no facts in her universe, and no issue of trust. There was power. Power demanded respect. Power conferred the right to speak and not be challenged. Being right was a question of power, not evidence.

The existence of alternative facts had become policy.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

A própria palavra "sedução" implica mentira e manipulação.

We use our intellects not to solve practical problems, but to outwit each other. Deceiving people, detecting deceit, understanding people's motives, manipulating people – these are what the intellect is used for.

Many of the smartest people and most creative talents are working for the brainwashers, using dazzling images, sex and violence to rob us of our sanity.

Fox News isn't something you can tune out, like a game show or a cable movie you've seen a dozen times. The colors, the moving logos, the giant fonts, the . . . well . . . the things they actually say. It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.

Love speaks with a false tongue. It kisses you in one ear, then turns with a hiss to bite the other.

Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their bunnies.

When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.

We're good at lying," Sebastian said, leaning over and managing a smile. "We've been doing it for years.

You've always been so annoying, Julian," he spat. "Everything's always been about you, hasn't it? Who Julian was sleeping with or flirting with or cheating on. It was endless. And now here you are again. The MP. The politician.

Why yes, I can," said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. "The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

Why yes, I can, said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

She tried to demonstrate her power over him. She stayed away from his house; she waited for him to come to her. He spoiled it by coming too soon; by refusing her the satisfaction of knowing that he waited and struggled against his desire; by surrendering at once.

man who rules the mob only as long as he says what the mob wants him to say.

If you want to defeat any kind of vicious fraud—comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature.