Quotes About Manipulation

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.

There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- immoral from a scientific point of view.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

I rely on you to misrepresent me.

I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.

The waving of crooked, false-jeweled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help.

She frowned at him. That sounds vaguely like a threat. It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself. It is a language specially designed to deceive the chance listener.

Gran Bretaña había aprendido, cuatro años después de su primera invasión, que para colonizar al Virreinato del Río de la Plata no hacían falta ni su escuadra ni sus soldados. Bastaba con dominar su comercio. Pocos años más tarde acentuaría su influencia a través del endeudamiento, para lo que contaría con la complicidad de quien fuera nuestro primer presidente. Estrategia de las grandes potencias que se perpetúa hasta hoy.

She looked resentfully at Mr. Cann. It would, she was sure, have been difficult enough to persuade him, in spite of his protestations, to leave the house alive. Dead, he was going to be far more trouble.

Wulfe leaned in. Where did you send Ms. Benoit? Disneyland. Who knows my connection to the Zetas? The US Marshall Service, SWAT, my dentist, Oprah--- How did you know we were coming? Clearly, someone tipped you off. That guy. Zach points with a jerk of his head toward of of Wulfe's minions. The man looked uncertainly at Wulfe, taking a step backward. He text me just before you stepped in the elevator.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

Patricia Highsmith

Given the same circumstances, I could break you down and make you kill someone. It might take different methods from the ones Bruno used on me, but it could be done. What else do you think keeps the totalitarian states going?

And she wondered, as she had often wondered before, if Richard liked her only because she was more sympathetic with his ambitions than anyone else he happened to know now, and because he felt her criticism was a help to him.

People sometimes became invalids in order to win sympathy and attention, and get a feeling of importance

If all we had to do was flatter, everybody would catch on and we should all be experts in human relations.