Quotes About Manipulation

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Hypocrites are double-edged knives.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

they tremble and hide under the table when a local branch of ADL calls them 'anti-Semites'. Like the label of 'witch' in Salem, this word triggers a spasm wave in the target population.

Kad vidiš ovako ?oveka suviše sigurna u sebe i ono što kaže, hitra i slatka na re?i, koji ti nudi što mu ne tražiš, odobrava što kažeš, a ostaje pri onom što je namislio, znaj da je kurva i bezdušnik, i kloni ga se koliko možeš.

Toliko je živa kod slabog ?ovjeka potreba da se vara i tako neograni?ena mogu?nost da bude prevaren.

But people can take your truth and stretch it, twist it, tear it apart, turn it inside out and when you get it back, you are making enemies and when you try and straighten it out, you talk a whole lot more and give the people new ammunition to shoot back at you and then you have made more enemies!

In Coetzee's eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions.

Eve: She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you? Roarke: What, die? Eve: Leave me all this stuff. Roarke: Only you would be annoyed by that.

He took her hand, lifted it to his lips. Nothing could have pleased him more than the quick suspicion on her face. You won't forget me, Eve. You'll think of me, perhaps not fondly, but you'll think of me. I'm in the middle of a murder investigation. You're part of it. Sure, I'll think of you. Darling, he began, and watched with amusement as his use of the endearment knitted her brow. You'll be thinking of what I can do to you.

A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore.

Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She'd learned that one at her mother's knee.

But he knows me better than I figured. He knows she matters to me." "And he'll count on that messing you up. You gonna let it?

I'm fascinating by the hard line you're drawing over religion.' 'it gets used too much as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con. A lot of people, maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. —TACITUS

bribes often worked where procedure or threats wouldn't.

Whitney's giving a push on Russo. We'll

power doesn't just corrupt in the wrong hands, it mutilates.

Sex was a powerful tool to use or have used against you. Both of these women had wanted to wield it, to control it. In the end, it had killed them.

Or the ploy Dahmer used—that classic had proven to do the job in all the decades following. Lone woman struggling to lift something heavy into the back of a vehicle. Can

if you gave the media any part of yourself, it squeezed it, twisted it, and wrung it dry.

when you have politics, you have corruption." "Possibly.

Even on an image, Eve could see this was a man who hunted down what or who he wanted, bagged it, used it, and didn't bother with frivolities such as trophies. And yes, she thought, this was a man who could kill if and when it suited him. He would do so coolly, methodically, and without breaking a sweat.