Quotes About Manipulation

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

Lying for a good business reason has become so prevalent that they had to invent a new, less censorious word for it. They call it positioning, and people get paid good money to do it, lucky for me.

To live true to the vision of the master, we must be as selfish, narcissistic, manipulative, driven, and creative in getting what we want as we can be, not just in our important business actions, but where it really counts: in our hearts.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior.

I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.

Talleyrand define con enojo el cargo de ministro de Policia: "El ministro de Policia es un hombre que se ocupa, en primera línea, de todos los asuntos que le importan, y en segundo lugar, de todos los que no le importan".

The more naïve a people are, the easier it is to get around them.

Robespierre) EÄŸilip bükülürlüÄŸe, dirençsizliÄŸe, baÅŸar? için yaltaklanmalara kar?? beslediÄŸi kinin bütün kat?l???yla, dine baÄŸl? olanlar?n kutsall??a deÄŸer vermeyenlere kar?? duyduÄŸu güvensizlikle küçümsüyor Fouché'yi.

Bir insan? haftalarca, hatta aylarca ve durmamacas?na korkmaya zorlayan ve güvensizlikle onun maneviyat?n? bozan, arzular?n? uyuÅŸturan biri, ba???lanamaz. Ä°nsanlar, insanlar?n bir k?sm?, ya da içlerinden bir grup, tek bir kiÅŸinin bask?c?l???na uzun süre katlanamaz, ondan uzun süre nefret etmeden. Bu kin, dizginlenmiÅŸlerin kini, bütün çevrelerde alttan alta kaynar.

They called on the parents of the girl and filled them with alarm by suggesting that the empress would withdraw the yearly pension of two hundred ducats if their daughter's sight were restored, and, further, that the young pianist would lose half her attraction on the concert platform if she possessed normal vision. The possibility of having to forgo the yearly income worked like a charm upon Father and Mother Paradies.

by means of what we now call hypnosis an individual could exercise an influence for better or worse upon the mental condition of his neighbor.

He now became aware that his amazing influence over his fellow mortals did not arise from the lifeless mineral wherewith he performed his manipulations, but from himself, from the living man; that not the magnet but the magnetizer was the wizard who restored health.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

When you care about someone, they have the power to control you.

Adults raised in a narcissistic homes cling to the fantasy that they can somehow manipulate or control their parent/family of origin system to get the recognition and approval they require (that is, to get their needs met.) They had this fantasy as children, and they maintain it as adults. The reality, though, is that they had little control over their parent system as children and have little control over it now.

What kind of man eats your fish when you won't sleep with him?

I swear, there's nothing like saving a woman from death twice to make it easy to manipulate her.

The gaslighting parent usually has a "golden child" and a "scapegoat child." The former can do no wrong, whereas the latter can do no right. This pits siblings against each other, and these feelings of competition commonly extend into adulthood.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.