Quotes About Manipulation

What happens,' writes Shirer, 'to the inner fabric of a people when they are fed lies like this daily?' It is a question as important today as it was when posed on 9 May 1940

There will always be a boogie man. Politicians need one.

La reina es la figura más poderosa del tablero. Pero por poderosa que sea una pieza de ajedrez, no debe olvidar que siempre hay una mano que la mueve

Aprendí, gracias a esos envoltorios vacíos que pretendían llamarse hombres, la risa amarga y un poco superior de quien posee, en relación con los manipuladores de generalidades, la ventaja de la experiencia.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her—himself and her own longing—greater than a mere man

Any woman who can make you happy has all the information she needs to make you miserable if she wants to.

You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested, "Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.

The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

A gold digger may no longer be someone who strings gentlemen along while she works busily to get hold of their fortunes. She is more likely to be someone who strings gentlemen along because she is too busy for them while she is working to make her fortune.

I mistrust mountebanks—especially of the female variety.

An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.

Rumors are easy to plant; they grow like no other crop.

We want playmates we can own

Fear is a foolish way to control people

Menschen konnten nichts anderes sein als Menschen. Sie zogen sich Roben an oder Handschellen und taten, was von ihnen erwartet wurde. In diesem Haus bestand ihre Aufgabe darin, den Phantomschmerz einer amputierten Weltordnung zu erzeugen.

De staat was als een foute vriend, die alleen iets van zich liet horen als hij iets van je wilde.

Mehr als einmal hatte Frederik ihr vorgeworfen, sie knüpfe Liebe an die Bedingung reibungslosen Funktionierens. Wenn sich ein Mensch nicht in ihrem Sinne verhalte, sortiere sie ihn aus wie ein defektes Gerät. Durch diese unausgesprochene Drohung bringe sie andere dazu, ihrem Willen zu folgen, denn niemand wolle verstoßen werden, nur weil er die Küche nicht aufgeräumt oder einem Grundstücksverkauf nicht zugestimmt habe.

the propaganda was so pervasive and truth so distorted that many found themselves uncertain about what to believe.

The incessant marching and beating of drums, the sweeping searchlights, flaming torches, and thousands upon thousands of gigantic red and black swastikas flapping in the breeze, were all skillfully deployed to pay homage to the one supreme chieftain, the demi-god pre-ordained to lead his tribe out of darkness to its rightful place in the sun.

To begin, you will recognize that I am to be queen soon and you are not a liberty to tell me what to do, under any circumstance. His eyes widened with surprise. Now, there's a winning scheme if ever I heard one --befriend others by beating them on the head with your scepter.

Mao's great talent lay in turning the Chinese people into slaves, while making them feel like they were the masters of the country…All the world's dictators have studied Mao.