Quotes About Manipulation

You'll recognize those men, the ones inclined to their dark side, because they'll expect you to carry their load. They'll smother your anger with their pain, they'll make you doubt yourself, and they'll tell you they love you the whole time.

But Gloria kept her eyes trained on me, kept gripping my face. "You'll recognize those men, the ones inclined to their dark side, because they'll expect you to carry their load. They'll smother your anger with their pain, they'll make you doubt yourself, and they'll tell you they love you the whole time. Some do it big, like Ed, but most do it in quiet steps, like your father.

Tears welled in Penelope's eyes, making the blue even darker. Then she reeled back and slapped him hard enough that his cheek stung. That is for what you did to me. Not in the dark, Jeremy. Not as the faceless lover. Not even for today when you made love to me... or perhaps we should call it 'fucking', since there was nothing loving about it, only manipulation. Her voice shook as hard as her hands as she turned on her heel and headed for the door. It's for betraying my friendship.

you broke up two marriages, and faked a young woman's illness, and bribed her to get an abortion—all in the first chapter—

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's an interesting propaganda task, but it's been carried out very well.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

The more people that are out of work, the better for the Democrat Party. I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

For more than 10 years, Daniel Snaith has been playing mad scientist with pop and psychedelic music. As Manitoba, and more recently as Caribou, he's pushed the genres' limits with electronics and studio trickery.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.