Quotes About Manipulation

The somewhat sinister maxim, divide et impera [had] been acted upon', adds Bosworth Smith, with 'triumphant results'.

Maharani Jindan evidently approached the British with the suggestion that 'they may destroy the [kingdom's] army' and take the boy-king under their protection.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

What frequently begins as a conspiracy frequently develops into conditioned response, with only occasional explicit coordination required.

From the time of the Congress split, Mrs Gandhi had worked to place loyal individuals in position of authority, and to make public institutions an instrument of her will.

Manipulation is application of intelligence on people to achieve a pre-meditated outcome solely benefitting the former than latter.

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves.

far softer than putty, indeed, to be able to do to her what they began to do then.

Would-be Machiavellis, some long dead before the Florentine statesman himself ever lived, anticipate the historian's enquiries by booby-trapping evidence, laying false trails, and liquidating artifacts. (This might have been what Napoleon had in mind when he blew off the nose of the Sphinx. Or was it Mohammed Sa'im al-Dahr who did it, in 1378 A.D.? No one really knows.)

Everything a person does is manipulative, isn't it? Every kiss, every handshake, every kind or harsh word. It's what we do, who we are. Some of us are better at it or more obvious or more deceitful than others. But we all do it.

Our capacity to create and manipulate mental representations has many benefits, and the ability to foresee new dangers is clearly one of them. This capacity also helps us to avoid repetitions of actual experiences of danger or injury without creating unnecessary phobias.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Perhaps they had been slaves to the emperor for so long that they no longer had a spark of freedom that could be ignited. Augustus Caesar and his successors had cleverly wooed them, turning defiant citizens into submissive slaves, all in exchange for Roman peace, beautiful roads, free food, and entertainment.

Bootlicking mainstream media is spreading wrong picture of the farmers protest and the foolish viewers are accepting it.

Filmy style is used by Govt to snub the voice of dissentors. Send own Goondas in the midst of villages to pelt stone on protestors and to make them clash and bootlicking media covers the picture through camera in such a way that it misguide viewers

Government as part of plan has put both the brothers Jawan (Soldiers) and Kisan (Farmers) against each other to fight amongst themselves in the Farmers protest and media continue to present distorted image to fool public

He who used to create fake news is talking on Anti-Hindus topic and the fools are applauding him.

Mainstream media can do anything for TRP and spreading fake news by creating hashtag trend on social media handles and showing numerous supporters to it is nothing new for them.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

Those who organize the world organize both suffering and the pain-killers for dealing with it;

My pleasure is nameless: those all too rare moments when I create myself afford no purchase to external manipulation.

Thanks to the magic of the imagination, everything exists solely to be manipulated, caressed, broken apart, put back together or altered in any way I wish. Once the primacy of subjectivity is accepted the spell of things is broken. Started from other people, the search for the self is fruitless; we repeat the same futile gestures time after time. Started from oneself, on the other hand, actions are not repeated but rather revisited, corrected and fully realized.

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

There are only two surefire ways to get people to do what you want them to do. You either put on an iron glove and make them do it. Or you tell them God wants them to do it.