Quotes About Manipulation

He stooped to the evil of hypocrisy with others, sceptical of their innocence which he could cajole so easily.

I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit

Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.

Why don't you try to make me feel bad?

Varina could weave a spiderweb and sprinkle it with gold dust and lure you inside and wrap it around both your eyes and your heart, all the while making you enjoy your own entrapment.

Emmeline seemed to lie the way all narcissists do. Whatever they say, regardless of its absurdity, becomes the truth.

The Great Whore of Babylon is a commanding mistress. Once she widens her thighs and takes you inside her, she never lets go.

Maybe they used drugs on you. Maybe they didn't need drugs. They have powers we don't understand.

If we get scared enough we can convince ourselves that snake and nape are selective, and that a scarlet cross painted on a shield can make acceptable the beheadings of Saracens on a scaffold in Jerusalem.

Palpatine laughed without merriment. "What could you possibly have to offer someone like me?" "Just this." She opened the soft shoulder bag to reveal a humanoid infant of less than a standard year in age. The infant's hairless head was stippled with an array of short but still pliant horns, and its entire body had been garishly and ceremonially tattooed in red and black pigments.

The Sith are not placid stars but singularities. Rather than burn with muted purpose, we warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design.

Plagueis kept his thoughts to himself. The aptly named Darth Bane

Plagueis stood and touched him on the shoulder. 'No, Lord Sidious. Because we are the end of the line.' He gestured broadly. 'Everthing done here has been for a single purpose: to extend our reign indefinitely.

we warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design.

What now?" Plagueis asked the moment Palpatine broke the connection. Sidious shook his head in disbelief. "Valorum somehow managed to persuade the Council to send two Jedi to Naboo.

Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves.

Are you insinuating that my daughter is a snake?" "No—is a coloratura soprano, is much worse. A little snake, love mamma, do what papa tells, maybe, but a coloratura soprano, love nobody but own goddam self. Is son-bitch-bast', worse than all a snake in a world. Madame, you leave dees girl alone.

Power has been defined as the production of intended effects, but the crux of the matter lies in the dimensions of "intent.

didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.

Murder can be made to look like suicide, and suicide can be made to look like murder.

Deception is the art of war.

What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage?

Best way to stir the crazy pot? Wrap your dogma in an American flag and wait to see who bites