Quotes About Manipulation

Movies are an authoritarian medium. They vulnerabilize you and then dominate you

and the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism.

La gente è sempre in ansia. Puoi tenere in pugno chi vuoi, se scopri di cosa ha paura.

He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.

is a game as ancient as recorded history. Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly

He knew far too many like Fredericks who, while mouthing platitudes, actually held everyone in secret disdain, because they as "leaders" knew what was best "for the people.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena

You are a villain! Iago: You are a senator!

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.