Quotes About Manipulation

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

That the makers of laws are the majority who are weak; and they make laws and distribute praises and censures with a view to themselves and to their own interests.

When ideas are manipulated for personal ends, for class or group interests, the name for this is sophistry.

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... this and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

GORGIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you mean that you will teach him to gain the ears of the multitude on any subject, and this not by instruction but by persuasion? GORGIAS: Quite so.

Truth, sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

Just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.

Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10–20). Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14). Strategy 3—Against Your Identity

If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against

Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14).

He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB   When

Where power was perceived, power was given. For his entire life Conphas had been surrounded by tutors.

Ajencis," he continued, "once wrote that all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men . . .

You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken.

Power, she had come to realize, had the insidious habit of inserting others between you and your tasks, rendering your limbs little more than decorative mementoes of a more human past.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB

After all, spies were little different from whores. Sorcerers less so.

It was as if she thought life was a game, and she had to psych everyone out so she'd win.

Did that remind anybody else of something? Yes, Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.

It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know you don't mean what you say. It's pure selfishness that you want to keep me here.