Quotes About Manipulation

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

Todo el mundo comenta cómo salvaste la vida de Winnie anoche _ Lo que hice fue hacerle una zancadilla cuando llegamos a la puerta y luego arrastrarla a la calle, para que todos pensara que la había salvado. Él sonrió y levantó su tazón en señal de brindis. _ Bien hecho. _ Veo que has pasado demasiado tiempo en mi poco recomendable compañía.

No, amor mío, no estás embarazada, y yo me niego a ser manipulado. Esta conversación ya me resulta insoportablemente tediosa. Te quiero con todo mi corazón y... ¿Estás llorando, cariño? Sí moqueó Sugar Beth_ . Casi no he hecho otra cosa desde que te fuiste ¿ Es eso cierto? Me temo que sí. Espléndido Y colgó.

That's not fair. I like lying to you. It makes my life easier.

Years ago she had discovered that she could control her relationships with heterosexual men far better by playing the sexy siren than the blushing ingenue. Being the sexual aggressor put her subtly in charge. She was the one who defined the rules of the game instead of the man, and when she sent her suitor on his way, he assumed it was because he didn't measure up to all the other men in her life.

I feed off men. I lure them with my sexual tricks, then bite off their heads while they sleep." "Ain't She Sweet?.

If only she were one of those sublimely mysterious women who could control a man with the flicker of an eyelash or a single smoldering glance.

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

It pursues a divide-and-conquer strategy: single versus married women, working women versus homemakers, middle-versus working-class. It manipulates a system of rewards and punishments, elevating women who follow its rules, isolating those who don't. The backlash remarkets old myths about women as new facts and ignores all appeals to reason. Cornered, it denies its own existence, points an accusatory finger at feminism, and burrows deeper underground. Backlash

Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you.

What makes a controlling parent so insidious is that the domination usually comes in the guise of concern. Phrases such as, "this is for your own good," "I'm only doing this for you," and, "only because I love you so much," all mean the same thing: "I'm doing this because I'm so afraid of losing you that I'm willing to make you miserable.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.