Quotes About Manipulation

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

So, in bigger-picture Machiavellian scheme of things, it transpires that the mind must be disposed of, with special emphasis on its detecting components. There are two traditional methods for achieve something like this – to keep people, in general, as stupid and illiterate as possible, and, if that doesn't work, to keep their minds fixated on the objective

Once again, both Chris and I were manipulated like small puppets in our world of adults. We didn't like it, and we suffered, but the tall ones around us said that we would soon get over our sadness, that we would "adapt" in a matter of weeks.

He chuckled as he realized how he'd rationalized betrayal into gallantry. Damn, he was a good lawyer. But

Si un être était capable de mentir aux autres et de les rouler comme il peut se mentir à soi-même, il ferait une sensationnelle carrière d'escroc.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.

A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you—the social reformers—see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

There is no language without deceit.

All interpretation is a use of violence and caprice against a text.

But by now all his stories are so saturated with falsehood that anything said about him is false. He's succeeded in this, at least.

Her vanity did not worry him since he profited by it so much;

In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schools-the idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn.

Una vez que un hombre o una mujer ha aceptado la necesidad de la escuela, es fácil presa de otras instituciones

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

Les enfants sont par définition des apprentis, et apprendre est l'activité humaine qui nécessite le moins de manipulation par autrui. La majeure partie de l'apprentissage n'est pas le resultat de l'instruction. Elle serait plutôt le résultat d'une participation dans un environnement chargé de sens.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled.

See, once a person see what you will do if they don't, they let you keep on doin it! All of it! If you let them!

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.