Quotes About Manipulation

Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Las muchedumbres se dejan conducir por el entorno o por las voluntades y deseos de otros que son más fuertes.

La herencia, la sugestión y otras causas externas los mueven de un lado a otro como peones en el tablero de ajedrez de la vida.

The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life. But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns.

Human beings could apparently be turned into killers as effortlessly as turning a key. All one had to do was use a few buzzwords: God. Country, Religion. Honor.

Everything that he was saying sounded incredible, but Frank knew enough about politics to know that governments got away with what they did because they counted on ordinary citizens dismissing events as being too incredible and implausible.

Nos enseñan a manipular y a engañar para obtener lo que queremos y, a no ser que sea descubierta, vivimos ocultando nuestra deshonestidad. El gran número de políticos así como de altos cargos de la administración que tienen que afrontar demandas judiciales ilustra esto que estamos diciendo.

O beautiful one, you've robbed the minds of all people.

duplicity, and deviousness—toward

The world was built on foundations of lies; upheld by deception to conceal the fruits of life.

He's the human equivalent of a spam email,

Somehow, he'd snaked into her head and sunk his fangs into her brain, poisoning her with hope. A cruel trick.

I'm your air, Jenna. Me. I know where you live.' He pushed her in the chest with his index finger, hard, just over her heart. She stumbled backward.

These clever goddamn people. They really know how to play a guy. But holy Hell, their biggest skill is raping you, all the while making you think you're having consensual sex.

I'd become quite a master prevaricator.

Todd was everything Tallahassee was looking for: young, handsome, ambitious and completely full of shit.

She knew my buttons and kept pressing them like an epileptic in an arcade. If it's any consolation, I gave her fair warning." "Oh, my God!

Politics, by its nature, emits a lot noise.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

My real concern is what happens if China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica, what happens if North Korea becomes the next Cambridge Analytica?

It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.