Quotes About Manipulation

I lied to you and it was easy, because you believe everybody means what they say. Everyone's lying to you, Neverfell. Everyone. And you can't tell, because you're just not very bright when it comes to people. Brighten up fast, or you're done for.

For a second, she could almost see Caverna as the Kleptomancer did, a murky, monstrous beauty, smiling her fine-fanged smile as she prepared to stretch and grow, shaking out her tunnel-tresses as they became longer and longer. Perhaps Caverna had already known that such an opportunity was open to her. Neverfell imagined her discarding the Grand Steward like a worn-out toy, and reaching for a new favourite, a man who could extend her empire and bring her new strength . . . Maxim Childersin.

Silence itself could be used as deftly and cruelly as a kire

Nobody was to be trusted. The plan that had ensnared her had been the brainchild of her protector, Maxim Childersin.

She knew that if you wanted somebody to believe something, there was no point forcing it down their throat. Far better to give them a hint, a glimpse, a taste, then snatch it away from them. The faster you ran, the more they would give chase, and the more likely to believe the hard-won information when they caught it.

Some say the favor of the Grand Steward is double-edged. They are wrong. It is all edge, and everybody knows it, and still all the courtiers spend their every waking moment clutching at it and bleeding.

The world is full of liars of different humors. Coy liars drop their eyes. Bold liars forget to blink.

The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own.

For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

Evil is present to cleverly disguise itself as good. Evil is present to control and deceive us.

The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture . . . taking a verse out of context . . .deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited—these are some of Satan's favorite tricks.

Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.

Satan is masterful at using just enough of God's truth to capture a person's attention and then mix it with his devious potion that will lead [believers] astray.

Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God.

We have seen the results of unrestrained greed, corruption, and manipulation on Wall Street, financial mismanagement in the halls of government, fraud and perversion at the highest levels of both church and state. Many people sense the possibility of an even greater unraveling in the world. We are constantly confronted by the realities of new problems in this age of crisis.

Goodbye, Baby. Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) Double Indemnity

Love Egoist What I find really sad is... his smiles, his kindness... are inspired by a love potion and they don't really mean anything!

Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band. (...) The whites were complaining at the same time that we were intruding upon their rights. They made it appear that they were the injured party, and we the intruders. They called loudly to the great war chief to protect their property. How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

The world is full of kings and queens, who blind your eyes and steal your dreams

The world is filled with Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes, and steal your dreams.

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss anyone's arse.

Beware of those that fall at your feet, they may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

each director could access a visual picture of the figures, which they could then manipulate through 'what if' questioning.