Quotes About Manipulation

If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.

Earl knew he was weak at framing questions in such a way that he could use the witness's answers against him ten questions later.

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He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!

You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like you want them to, Mother, you'll always feel betrayed. And because eventually everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat, Mother. You're the one who uses our love for us to try to control us.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.