Quotes About Manipulation

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Love hath made thee a tame snake

Se viceversa un filosofo dice che la cosiddetta 'verità' è una questione di potere" perché fa il filosofo invece che il mago?

I guess it's always uncomfortable to discover you're not as individual as you thought. But it really bothered me. From one perspective, I was an independent animal, exercising free will in order to elicit predictable reactions from an inert vending machine. But from another, the vending machine was choosing to withhold snacks in order to extract predictable, mechanical reactions from young men. I couldn't figure out any objective reason to consider one scenario more likely than the other.

You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-' Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it. Wil's eyes stung. 'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.'

Persuasion stems from understanding. We compel others by learning who they are and turning it against them.

If these guys had all the money, John wondered, who could stop them doing whatever they wanted?

Nothing is more thrilling, thought he, than to be treated as a cully by the person you hold in the hollow of your hand.

This is how all social, ideological, or religious movements police their members—by making clear that agreement will be rewarded with greater social standing and support, and disagreement punished with ostracism. This pressure is so amorphous and pervasive that, like oxygen, you are only aware of it when it is gone.

El miedo, el miedo es la mercancía más valiosa del universo. Encended la televisión ¿Qué veis? ¿Gente vendiendo productos? NO. Gente vendiendo el miedo que tenéis de vivir sin sus productos. El miedo vende

what are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product

They realized that the best way to mask what they were doing was to hide it in plain sight. Instead of lying about the sweeps themselves, they just lied about what they were sweeping for.

Terror is a powerful weapon. Terror clouds thought.

I have the power to cause you pain.

fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe

I believe Ivy wanted me to hate myself and seduced me merely to make me hate myself, and that was her joy, to humiliate me, the only joy I could give her.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe that for his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.

If I have my way, you'll have her no longer.

He's no stranger to pretty words.

He didn't show you affection. He didn't do things for you because he knew you'd love them. And, baby, that's wrong. Your relationship with him was all about him. Not about you. It was about what he could take from you without having to give back. And that's ten sorts of fucked up. It's no way for a man to treat a woman he's supposed to cherish and protect.

You can't control my feelings, Hancock. You control my fate, yes. My ultimate destiny. My life even. But you can't control me.

Flattery will get you everywhere

The dominant ruling class of our time owns and controls information.