Quotes About Manipulation

It's amazing how much power a simple false phrase repeated can have.

Do I need to go for a stroll? (Sin) Nay. I'm merely trying to kill your brother. (Maggie)

a woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have complete control of them, for when their male piece is in control, their brain is not.

Ambassador Garak is having a field day with the press at my expense, and while that just means it's probably Tuesday again, it never does much for my mood.

I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

politicized character of Hindutva-watching leads to unabashed manipulations of the semantics of established terminology.

Sociopaths have no conscience. Narcissists have no empathy. Neither one thinks other people are real. Narcissists think other people are just ego food, tools or extensions of themselves.

It's how fucked-up families communicate. Instead of talking to each other directly, everything goes through a third party. If one person controls all the information, they can lie or pit people against each other.

They want us scared and stupid. They want us to believe that their way is the only way.

Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.

When things went right, it was generally because the woman had cleverly manipulated the guy into good dating behavior. He'd call when he said he would. Put some thought into dates. He'd ask questions about her life because she didn't vomit up all her personal history in the first ten minutes.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

Has Solan addled your brain?

Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.

What likely dazzled the Ambassador even more than her sophisticated facade was his sense that she was covertly angling toward something greater. "It's not what you are that counts," he famously declared, "but what people think you are.

casualty reports on either side are never accurate, seldom truthful, and in most cases deliberately falsified.

Within a democratic system, general elections are a most effective instrument to insure the steady maintenance of fraction ? among the powerful. One has to keep in mind that according to the Second Basic Law, the fraction ? of the voting population are stupid people and elections offer to all of them at once a magnificent opportunity to harm everybody else without gaining anything from their action. They do so by contributing to the maintenance of the ? level among those in power.

Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue." —Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (11) "I

Contraponer la verdad al engaño es el juego por excelencia, aunque difícil: o nos engañamos o nos engañan.

Así fue como aprendí -se dice ella ahora- que la verdad no existe, la verdad se fabrica. Y precisamente a eso me dedico desde aquel entonces, es tan divertido como útil.