Quotes About Manipulation

Sofia visualised shining strings emanating from each of her fingers and connected with the souls of her puppets. All she had to do to get them to perform was to lift a finger and tweak a string.

Daniel has betrayed you, Owen. He laughed about you, as Lily did. Both of them prefer my attention to yours. You are weak, unskilled, a fumbling, hopeless lover. Give yourself to me now. Let me teach you.

Be careful, Othman, I can have a pack of famished hounds down your back while you lie asleep at night. I can tell your little Winter friends a few things about you.

Ahhh," breathed the serpent, "to be desired by princes and kings. I am you, Tayven. I am the snake inside your pretty skin that bit them and poisoned their hearts.

It was not desirable to explain things to Louis. Like Barbara, he was merely a tool, and in Othman's consideration, deserved no explanation.

I realized it would be wise to leave immediately, before he tried to humiliate and confuse me further.

To this point, I had not realised how deadly Mallory could be, and even believed her hand was not behind these events. I realised I must be wrong. Some of Mallory's creatures were among the delegations to Mewt.

I am like a serpent, Tayven thought. I can hypnotize people. Almorante had told him this long ago, and had taught him to make the most of his talent.

Barbara Eager, Othman knew, was a ripe fruit for plucking. Still he did not intend to gather the harvest himself. That would be too easy.

The woman was supposed to dance to his tune, and he was in no mood for music at the moment.

In her heart, she was afraid that Lahash's attraction to her was far outweighed by his desire to snare Shemyaza.

There are schemes within schemes within schemes.

Ah … politics, Sergeant. When the top brass hand you a turd, you polish it and say, "my, what a lovely jobbie!" That way they are impressed by your intellect, perception and ability. If you don't, all you've got is a handful of shit.

A thoughtful pause and then: 'Maybe to make it easy to find, but look like it's hard to find, so you'd find it but think it wasn't meant to be found, even though you only really found it because someone wanted it to be found?

Trump's Deep State is just a variation of Joe McCarthy's mythical Communists infesting the State Department, the "enemies within.

So the Nixon White House laid out the path to electoral success by maximizing white grievance and suppressing the African American vote through a combination of manipulation, lies, and legal challenges. It was this road that the Republican Party took to the Trump White House.

What about Hitler? He was one person. They were all doing what Hitler said. What do all prisoners do? They do what the warden says. The only power Hitler had was the power the people gave him. I felt the whole world had gone absolutely mad

We're in bad shape as a country. We're suffering from the collapse of both political parties. They're bought out. They're owned by corporate America, lock, stock, and barrel. The media is sold out. The corporate dominant culture, which is driven by the market, the bottom line, sells out everything.

There was a terrible depression in Germany. Along comes a man who tells them they're a great nation, all they have to do is believe in themselves and follow him. He promised them the sun, the moon and the stars. The German intellectuals and comedians made fun of him and the Nazis in their night clubs. I heard one in the Platzl in Munich. The audience loved it, adored it. But it didn't stop Nazism. They won over the lower middle classes. . .

It could happen. People could be fooled. Memory is short.

This is human. It happened before. The Spanish, in the Inquisition, under God, destroyed an entire population. What about the Albigenses ? It can happen again. We are all good people, but if we are led a little too far, we are going to believe everything we are told. We are ordinary people, who can also be weapons for evil Hitlers.

We have two Governments in Washington: one run by the elected people—which is a minor part—and one run by the moneyed interests, which control everything.

Black fungus, white fungus, yellow fungus , blue fungus and so on. Keep inventing bogus fungus to cheat people.

Flora) "No, Jess- it'll take hours. Just go and see Mr. Powell and fess up. It's the only way. Crawl and grovel and offer to do all sorts of remedial thingies. That's what I do with my dad. And do it with captivating feminine charm. That always works on Dad. I stroke his hair. It never fails." "I can't stroke Mr. Powell's hair, for God's sake!" A horrible hallucination flashed through Jess's mind.