Quotes About Manipulation

The question to ask yourself is, Do you always or never do that? Or is it only once in a while? One of the favorite tricks of family bullies is to make criticisms global (blowing them out of proportion) so they seem much more important. Another favorite manipulation is to place a label on you, as in "Too bad you're not a better mother." How would someone know, since they don't see how you are with your kids day in and day out—only on special occasions?

This trickster demonstrated a hallmark behavior of a smart psychopath: Quick recovery once caught in a lie, so as to offer another that seemed more sincere.

you have to tell lots of little lies to promote one big lie.

And I learned all those many years ago to stop listening to what people said, and listen instead to what they mean. Some people speak with honey and intend to serve us poison. You, my lord, speak with thorns but yearn for cake.

Truth is nothing but a lie manipulated into art.

she hated him, she did! Regan pounded her fists on the stone windowsill. He was a devious, cold-blooded manipulator. And he had likely been maneuvering her to his own purposes from the start. But why? Of

Given that the majority of communication to which we are subjected in a day consists of advertising, if nearly all of that advertising insists on regarding us as pampered children, what does that do to us? It winds us up with a godforsaken second term of smarmy granddad President Ronald Wilson Reagan for one.

Choice is an illusion promoted by the powerful.

And Colton used her, treated her like a muddy little dog.

Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that's what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through – that's why they love it when we bow our heads. It doesn't have anything to do with praying. Prayers bore them.

She's using you to get to me," Hi said confidently. "Both of them. They've caught Hiram fever." I nodded. "Of course. It all makes sense now.

She gave me a conspiratorial wink. "He's cute. " Gross. Whitney discussing my friends was straight-up creepy. Though he is cute. No denying that. "I dunno. Maybe." "Would you like me to speak to his mother?" Whitney leaned close. "If you're uncomfortable inviting a boy, we could arrange for him to ask you." I wanted to punch her face. He already offered, you dolt. Everything's not as simple as you are.

Maskirovka (masquerade) is a technique developed by the Russian military in the early part of the last century that can be summarized by three words: deception, denial, and disinformation.

Trained by the KGB to spread confusion and doubt, actual diplomacy was not part of the Russian's repertoire.

I was sorry I'd scared them, but some lessons you ought to learn as soon as you can: never trust a woman once she's loved you. It's a spell whose breaking takes many tries; she'll think she's through, then call you back, conjure you up out of air. And at last, she'll do anything, just to be free.

Women.... They insist on being loving and kind and caring, and why do they do that? To make a man feel guilty, that's why. And then they lure innocent men who are busy with important scientific research into impregnating them, and then said busy men end up caring about said spawn. And these ladies smell good, too. Deliberately. The wenches.

a type of violence, that much charm continuously wielded, a blade that severed you from your own good sense.

It's not luck, I'm cheating." (Allen Walker)

Berhentilah memanfaatkan situasi yang menguntungkan hanya supaya kau bisa memaksakan pendapatmu" -Detektif Kusanagi

of, Catherine Crier's book, A Deadly Game. Scott

I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.