Quotes About Manipulation

The Soviet authorities didn't outlaw climbing completely; they just shifted it from an individual experience, which they categorized as a "relic of bourgeois alpinism," to a collective endeavour that could be manipulated by the propaganda machine.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

there was much to amuse her. Secretly she gloated upon her power over this most fearsome monarch....

Laurino thought a jury could well interpret the back-and-forth of the girls as a not very elaborate cat-and-mouse game, orchestrated by Mari, who pretended she needed the tutelege of the sexually experienced Leslie, who, of course, was eager to guide her protegee, eager to prove just how experienced she was.

Although Leslie was vulnerable to manipulation and abuse, it didn't mean that she was an uncomplicated person. She manuevered between two worlds: the world of her parents and the kid world. In the kid world, you could talk about boys and sex, but you didn't bring it home. Home was reserved for nice, polite conversation.

Ühiskonnas tõuseb lihtsamalt ja kiiremini kõrgele see, kes oskab kütkestada, mõrtsukaid liita, valeinformatsiooni levitada, kui see, kes oskab toota uusi mõtteid ja asju.

Parim viis hirmu peletamiseks on hirmu tekitamine.

U godinama nakon toga shvatit ?u da osoba koja ima kontrolu u vezi ovisi o slabom partneru, a ipak ta tobožnja slaba osoba procvate kad oti?e, dok je ona, navodno ja?a, manje sposobna sama se iznijeti. Ako snagu crpiš pod?injavanjem druge osobe, onda si ti slab i ovisan.

I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.

Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That's what they do. That is the essence of their politics. They get one group to fight another group while their wealthy friends and campaign contributors get richer and laugh all the way to the bank.

Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That's what they do. That is the essence of their politics.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Givola: Why you doing this, boss? Just for the swells at the Trust? Ui: On the contrary. This is for the little guy. Why do you think that Trust man, Clark, Always looks so impressive? Not for his own kind, that's for sure. His bank account takes care of them ­ Just like I rely on my brave boys to make sure I get respect. Clark puffs himself up to impress the little man. And so will I.

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

History is the register of the strife of authorities. Always and everywhere man takes possession of man to bend him to his will and adapt him to his designs; so that society is seen to be a galaxy of authorities which arise, grow, and fight each other.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

For all his worldliness he was shocked. He was afraid she was becoming corrupted. He had only to suggest she lift her hips a fraction higher or arch her back rather more sharply for her to comply at once. She began to add certain embellishments of her own. On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder.

Figures won't lie, but liars can figure.

This is why people don't like Washington, D.C., you just said something that I did not say and attributed it to me. This is your trick of the trade, to confuse and incite based on fear.

We are never allowed to forget what the billboards, television, movies and the press would have us remember. From Mademoiselle 1955

Rhine laughed. "She bribed you?" "Sure did, and I took it like a politician at the state capital.