Quotes About Manipulation

For six years, since the Nazi "co-ordination" of the daily newspapers, which had meant the destruction of a free press, the citizens had been cut off from the truth of what was going on in the world.

Language is the continuation of coercion by other means.

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

Language is the continuation of coercion by other means." "Bullshit. It's cooperation.

Ethically challenged people with lots of analytical smarts can, with enough contortions, make almost any case from a given set of statistics.

The last defense of the charlatan is always that something is 'strategic.

A wise person allows herself to be used when it suits her purpose. She pretends weakness, then waits for the right moment to take control.

As for being pawns," Krishna was saying, "aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

radio shock jocks were soon telling an audience eager to believe in their own righteousness and sound mental health that the impairment was fake.

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.

A politician has an axe to grind With which he aims to chop off half your mind.

That was perfect, because Tracey knows Jon better than anybody, and what he might really want, and what he's capable of saying he wants. Plus, also, I think in the back of both my head and Stephen's was, if Jon is really pissed afterward, we can say, "Hey, Tracey said it was okay!" STEPHEN COLBERT: Find somebody to throw under the bus—that's the first rule of show business.

Treachery was axe, not a scalpel. It was Hard to make a clean cut.

It's very easy to diagnose a borderline. They screw you over, rip you off, commit whatever transgression, and then they blame you for it.

Humans are pathetically greedy and easy to manipulate.

The eye cannot always be trusted. We think what we see is always real, that the light always reveals what is there the same way at all times. But light and shadow can be manipulated, directed, by those that understand it... And so your eye perceives something entirely different from what you thought was there.

Hate is powerful. Hate can be eternal. Hate can be manipulated. And hate can be created.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.

you do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me, lied to them

I know," he said with sudden bitterness, "because your mother's game is working after all. She is turning you against me." "No," said Louie. He looked at her pityingly, "No, I know you don't know it, Looloo.