Quotes About Manipulation

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you.

Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings.

One night, Tim stumbled across a documentary called Manufacturing Consent. After viewing it, he found some writing online by its subject, Noam Chomsky, and as a result began to feel that there wasn't really a point to anything, that free will was an illusion, and that the things most people invested time and energy in were systems of control designed by those who sought to manipulate the general populace

Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was.

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for? - Eric, club dead.

Every now and then I felt like I was Bill's doll.

You can't use blackmail on someone who doesn't know anything about the hold you have on them.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"—Charles Baudelaire "The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy"—Ken Ammi

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

I didn't mind going to any length to make people believe that a puny hero had me at his mercy.

The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.

While in the Middle East, I saw how quickly religious sectarianism and bigotry can lead to the disintegration of a country - how leaders manipulate people to fear others who are different, who look different, or who have different beliefs.

?ovje?anstvo se, tako se ?ini, napreže samo dotle dok mora o?ekivati zatupljene svjedodžbe s kojima može trijumfirati pred javnoš?u, a kad ima dovoljno takvih zatupljenih svjedodžaba u ruci, onda se zapusti.

After the Age of Pericles, as Athenian confidence dimmed, that famous confidence was all too often replaced by cynicism, modesty by cockiness, sincerity by manipulation, strength by bluster. Though the gods were more and more loudly invoked, the prayers rang hollow, the appeal to conscience turned mute, and any reference to social justice tended to be met with a knowing smirk.

She showed that oblique-mannered softness which is perhaps more frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than Mrs. Charmond's was; women who lingeringly smile their meanings to men rather than speak to them, who inveigle rather than prompt, and take advantage of currents rather than steer.

You are a chameleon, and now you are at your worst colour. Go home, or I shall hate you!

Perhaps in no minor point does a woman astonish her helpmate more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries that she knows to be false – except indeed in that of being utterly skeptical on strictures that she knows to be true.