Quotes About Manipulation

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar's paradise

Listen to me. We've been had." "By whom? How?" "Toby Stonewood. He's played us from the start." "Toby? The Duke of Suffolk?" "One and the same." Simon couldn't stand how the English never wanted to believe the worst of their landed gentry. Even the most casual perusal of English history showed them to be venal, dishonest, and without scruples. And those were the good ones.

There's more than one way to fuck someone over. Do it hard so they never forget or do it quietly so they never know you were there.

At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.

Me da lo que quiere darme, sabiendo que voy a aceptar cualquier limosna que venga del rey que le hice creer que es.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

Han smiled, then, a bright, charming smile that lit up the room, more dangerous than any blade. All you ever needed was that smile, she thought. I'd have given in immediately.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

Matelon gripped both her hands. "We are soldiers," he said. "We are not game pieces on a board. Don't let them play us. Give this thing a chance." Lyss gently pulled free. "You're wrong, Captain," she said. "We never had a chance. At the end of the day, that is all that we are—game pieces. If you don't know that by now, you soon will.

He'd serve himself, waiting and watching until he could take advantage. He wouldn't play the fool anymore.

Kebesaran adalah kemampuan untuk membuat massa melakukan gerakan - Hitler

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

When I was growing up, it was 'communists.' Now it's 'terrorists.' So you always have to have somebody that's our enemy to be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, and guns, and bullets, and everything (2005, Voices of a People's History of the US)

Perception is reality. Media is omnipresent. Therefore, he who controls the media controls perception, and therefore controls reality TV, and therefore controls reality. Take

Naturally the common people don't want war . . . Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. —Hermann Goering

Het is omdat we allemaal oplichters zijn dat we elkaar verdragen. Iemand die het liegen niet aanvaardt zal de grond onder zijn voeten zien verdwijnen: we zijn biologisch gedwongen tot het onjuiste.

He believed me, and I was overwhelmed by bitterness when I saw that he did. My tears stopped; I told myself that it was quite easy to deceive those whose interest lay elsewhere.

You wanted him dead. And your wish is my command.

She knows he won't apologize for earlier. He never does. Instead, he'll moon around her, like he's the victim, until she's forced to say sorry or make it up to him in some way even though she's the wronged party

It's a shove here, a twist of the wrist there, a pinch to my upper arm, a thump to my thigh if he's really annoyed.