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Quotes About Manipulation

He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.
~ Heidi Tankersley, The Mod Code
Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you
~ O. S. Hickman
I miss you, " is how she entices you."I want you, " is how she charms you."I need you, " is how she entraps you."I love you, " is how she imprisons you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A woman never loves to any man, she only controls him
~ er.teji
deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
~ Kate Meader, Playing with Fire
Don't make anybody Use you, be smart, else Dont curse them when they chew u out and throw you, they were smart not you
~ Akshay
En aquest seu afany de poder, en necessitaven d'altres sobre qui exercir aquest poder, i aquests altres som nosaltres.
~ Miriam Toews
O, lijepe moje slatke lutke! Svi smo mi igra?ke u bazaru civilizacije! Svira?i, dame, no?ni desperateri, paralitici, svi se mi mi?emo u izlogu civilizacije po pravilu. Navinuli su nas, igraju se nama, a onda nas bacaju u sme?e!
~ Miroslav Krleža
Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.
~ Mitch Albom
Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.
~ Mitch Albom
The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn't need all that space. But she told them to be patient, it would be theirs when she died, which wouldn?t be long now, and she said this kindly, to sharpen the bite of it, and to remind them how much they were motivated by money
~ Mohsin Hamid
That's what you do. You find the best angle. You crop. You edit. That's not cheating. That's love.
~ Mona Simpson
mental influence over others, and in some cases such mental influence might be a good one, but it is the motive which makes it evil.
~ Montague Summers
That's too bad, Mr. Hall said, opening Door 1. You've won a goat. But you didn't open another door yet or give me a chance to switch. Where does it say I have to let you switch every time? I'm the master of the show.
~ Monty Hall
One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While
~ Mortimer J. Adler
But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and "plays back" the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.
~ Muriel Spark
The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.
~ Muriel Spark
Lies are like fleas hopping from here to there, sucking the blood of the intellect.
~ Muriel Spark
The only sap from which they draw life is your attention and fear of them.
~ Murphy Joseph
Junk is the "ideal product" because the "junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
~ N. Katherine Hayles
Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth.
~ Nabokov Vladimir
Maybe there is no news, Lily said, but only a moment later he corrected himself. There is news, they just don't put it in the newspapers anymore.
~ Nadeem Aslam