Quotes About Manipulation

Politics is a nasty business.

In the past, some natives used to collude with Britishers. In the same way, YSRCP is now colluding with Centre.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

A society convulsed by disorder and chaos, as Voegelin pointed out, elevates and even celebrates the morally degenerate, those who are cunning, manipulative, deceitful, and violent.

Daniel Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Speculators at megabanks and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money from the means of production. Rather, they ignore or rewrite the law—ostensibly put in place to protect the weak from the powerful—to steal from everyone, including their own shareholders. They produce nothing. They make nothing. They only manipulate money.

He could turn the larger current on and off by manipulating the small current applied to the middle of this transistor sandwich.

No one plays me, 'Lion'. That's no secret. No one gets into my head unless I let them. And just so we understand one another... Here's the deal . You work for me now.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

no lie is too obvious for the people to believe if it accommodates their secret wish to believe it.

I shall never be a dangerous woman; I can make men love, but I cannot make them suffer. It would be much better the other way about. I have seen women able to make men suffer who could not make them love. The more they suffered the more they hung around for a showdown. In the end they did better than I, for it is strange what people will do to be able to suffer and say to themselves, in the night, "I have suffered, I have lived indeed.

she saw her husband for the first time: she had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness by which he got the protection of certain goodhearted people—

She was nothing. She'd thought he was her world, and all the while, he'd been plotting to take down her family's club. She'd loved him. He'd used her and then thrown her away, shattering every dream, every hope she'd ever had.

You know me, gattina, you're just conditioned to think you can't trust anyone. He did that to you. Don't let him interfere with us. You have the right to live your life, Grace.

He thought he was playing her. Seducing her. That was the play, but it felt all too real, and he'd never had real.

Damn it, Ken. I'm so fucking in love with her. This isn't part of Whitney's experiment; he couldn't make me feel like this no matter what he planted between us.

Whitney plants viruses in us to force us to return home. [...] I knew sooner or later I wouldn't return, and I'd die from whatever they put in me.

Blythe was Viktor's in. He'd arranged a casual meeting and swept her off her feet. He was good with women. He knew exactly how to read them and what they wanted and needed. He was good at providing.

How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?" His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent.

I happen to know what family you come from, although I know I'm not supposed to know, and I'm certain you can manufacture proof of anything you want." "That's true. I can. But I didn't. -Airiana & Maxim

You are not nearly as afraid of me as you should be," he growled. She flashed him another smile, tugging at her wrist to remind him to release her. "I think you know what's between us would be worth nothing if you forced me to do your will in everything.

It's what we find with most conspiracies—they only exist because somebody wants them to.

To be tricked into thinking that you have freedom is worse than being told what to do.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.