Quotes About Manipulation

A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

Where even if someone loves you enough to save your life, they still castrate you.

Flattery is addictive. Convince others they are special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.

I knew this would happen, Marla says. You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

People in the outside world said something stupid with their every breath, and when they didn't talk their radios filled the gap with the copied voices of people singing the same songs over and over.

You get everybody telling the same lie and it ain't a lie, not no more.

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

And I want Seth dead. Worse than dead, I want him fat and bloated with water and insecure and emotional.

Si no entiendes algo, puedes hacer que signifique cualquier cosa.

what you can't understand you can make mean anything.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

I say, no. You've used me enough. If you don't cooperate, we'll go after Marla. I say, lead the way.

En la antigua Roma, dice la Hermana Justiciera, en el Coliseo, el editor era el hombre que organizaba los deportes sangrientos que eran la forma principal de mantener a la gente pacificada y unida. De ahí es de donde viene realmente la palabra editor. Hoy día, nuestro editor planea el menú de asesinatos, violaciones, incendios provocados y asaltos que hay en la portada del periódico del día.

A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay.

Ana babalar, kitlelerin uyuÅŸturucusudur!

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're

A la gente que amas les puedes hacer cosas peores que matarlos. Lo normal es quedarse mirando cómo el mundo lo hace por ti. Solamente tienes que leer un periódico.

I tell Marla about the woman in Dear Abby who married a handsome successful mortician and on their wedding night, he made her soak in a tub of ice water until her skin was freezing to the touch, and then he made her lie in bed completely still while he had intercourse with her cold inert body. The funny thing is this woman had done this as a newlywed, and gone on to do it for the next ten years of marriage and now she was writing to Dear Abby to ask if Abby thought it meant something.

With enough soap," Tyler says, you could blow up the whole world.

People will jump through hoops if you just make them feel like a god.

how do you steal a Republic? By convincing its people that they cannot govern themselves—that freedom is their enemy and that fear is their ally.