Quotes About Manipulation

The underlying problem with many Backstabbers is a lack of self-esteem

Most important, perhaps there was a way to do so without browbeating or scolding, or mounting a soapbox. Perhaps he could get them without their knowing they were got. If he could only find the way.

As a soubrette, yes. But as Lady Macbeth—" Mr Keane made an expressive gesture which swept an ash tray off the table.

History, in the hands of those who have the most to gain from change, is a formidable weapon. That's why colonizers and imperialists always burned and destroyed the historical accounts of those they conquered. They revise history to parrot one message over and over again, "the way things are now is the way they've always been". The meaning is clear and demoralizing: Don't even think about fighting for change.

Some people act like witchery is responsible for everything that happens, when actually witchery only manipulates a small portion.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

You mean to make me beg for it?" "Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Indifference says you are not a person to love, but an object to use.

Satan's goal is to tweak a lie so cleverly that it sounds reasonable, truthful, even right. Eve

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Leninism raised political opportunism to the dignity of a theory.

The importance of Chinese Communism does not depend on the intellectual level of its dogmas. Mao was one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, manipulator of large masses of human beings in the twentieth century, and the ideology he used for the purpose is significant by reason of its effectiveness, not only in China but in other parts of the Third World.

Marxism under Stalin cannot be defined by any collection of statements, ideas, or concepts: it was not a question of propositions as such but of the fact that there existed an all-powerful authority competent to declare at any given moment what Marxism was and what it was not.

Nothing is too unreasonable nor too unkind for selfishness, acted upon by vanity.

The Order seemed to adhere to the principle of suckers walk, players ride.

In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

Sometimes I think I am fate's sword. She wields me cruelly.

Highlight: In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

Their little dance was like the endgame of a disastrously bloody chess match, just a queen chasing a beleaguered king around an empty board, sadistically refusing to checkmate.

What's wrong with lying?... A lie is a blow to the tyranny of fact.

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Once the web has lost its charm, its terms lose theirs; suddenly they seem contingent and open to revision. For those epi-predators who work with the signifiers themselves rather than the things they supposedly signify, language is not a medium that helps us see the true, the real, the natural. Language is a tool assembled by creatures with "no way" trying to make a world that will satisfy their needs; it is a tool those same creatures can disassemble if it fails them.