Quotes About Manipulation

That's what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you're low-hung and she's high-strung!

When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance.

The world's a T.V. and hang-ups are commercials.

What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.

Information was control.

That we had been drawn, both by a misapprehension of the local rhetoric and by the manipulation of our own rhetorical weaknesses, into a game we did not understand, a play of power in a political tropic alien to us, seemed apparent, and yet there we remained.

The newspapers, censored, managed to report these rumors by carrying stories in which they deplored the spreading of rumors, or, as the newspapers put it, the propagation of falsehoods detrimental to public security. In order to deplore the falsehoods it was of course necessary to detail them, which was the trick.

This is in fact the kind of story we expect to hear about our elected officials. We not only expect them to use other nations as changeable scrims in the theater of domestic politics but encourage them to do so.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

Unless he has his own selfish interests at heart. He wants you to get so mad at Norman that you'll fall into his arms on the rebound. Either that, or . . ." Andrea faltered and Hannah stepped in with a possible explanation. "Either that or Mike has the IQ of a small kitchen appliance.

Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.

Why can't they see, mon père? Why can't they see what the woman is doing to us? Breaking down our community spirit, our sense of purpose. playing on what is worst and weakest in the secret heart. Earning for herself a kind of affection, of loyalty that - God help me! - I am weak enough to covet.

Azok, akik szerint a szavaknak nincs hatalmuk, nincsenek tisztában a szavak természetével. A jól irányzott szavak véget vethetnek egy uralkodó rendszernek, vallást alapíthatnak vagy háborút indíthatnak. A szavak a hazugságok pásztorai, sorainkból a legjobbakat máglyára küldhetik.

A real page turner...find out what happens to Jessie Martin's career, baby and relationships. How does Terrence Butterfield manipulate the system and Jessie.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Campbell Julia says Don't do this to me Do what? Push me off the same cliff twice

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

It's fun to mess with feelings.

I am not a player...I'm the game.

Don't confuse a person that is apologizing to you for forgiveness with a person that is apologizing to you just to get out of trouble.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.