Quotes About Manipulation

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.

Men control the world, but women control the men.

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that.

So, she lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has a 100 percent hold on her. This is often the point when women begin to complain: "He doesn't make enough time for me.

Let's qualify. A worthless guy who likes insecure women wants to mistreat her so he can feel powerful. Why is he worthless? Because he has no moral compass. To him, cruelty is a good thing. (That alone makes him worthless.)

A man knows which woman will give in to last-minute requests.

In their endeavor to score as much sex as possible, they'll tell women the opposite. Men know women feel pressure to be perfect so they 'throw them off the scent' with colorful stories to keep her focussed on pleasing him (short term). Like the one about how all his ex-girlfriends are supermodels. Or the one about his ex having sex with him ten times a day. (Clearly, a figment of his imagination.)

Alice's dinner consisted of one-half cup medium-grain white rice (120 calories), four spears of asparagus (20 calories), and a pat of butter (40 calories). Bones watched as she used her index finger to smear the butter on an asparagus spear. Then she sucked her middle finger, pretending to remove the excess butter. The buttered finger scratched an ankle, and the calories disappeared into her leg warmer. "Tricky," he said under his breath. She smiled. "Just good technique.

There was a great deal of skill in her smile, a smile meant to make a boy who had done nothing with his life make him feel accomplis and remarkable-vile even.

There was a great deal of skill in her smile, a smile meant to make a boy who had done nothing with his life feel accomplished and remarkable- vile, even.