Quotes About Manipulation

It's like drinking acid," said Myrna, "and expecting the other person to die." Gamache nodded.

Unlike most of us, who tend to be transparent, people rarely see through a psychopath," she continued. "He's masterful. People trust and believe him. Even like him. It's his great skill. Convincing people that his point of view is legitimate and right, often when all the evidence points in the other direction. Like Iago. It's a kind of magic.

A populist feeding anger and fear is more likely to get elected.

A lot of what we know to be history isn't," said Gamache. "You know that, I know that. It serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned. Can't have that.

Mothers and children are classic examples. Some mothers see their job as preparing their kids to live in the big old world. To be independent, to marry and have children of their own. To live wherever they choose and do what makes them happy. That's love. Others, and we all see them, cling to their children. Move to the same city, the same neighborhood. Live through them. Stifle them. Manipulate, use guilt-trips, cripple them.

So who was the fox?" "The cunning one who convinces the others that someone innocent is actually guilty. Blaming the victim.

The lion, while nominally in charge, had actually been taken in by the fox.

Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned.

You should. It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

The book was called How to Lie with Statistics.

He was like Pinocchio. A man made of wood, mimicking humanity. Shiny and smiling and fake. And if you cut into him you'd see rings. Circles of deceit and scheming and justification. It's what he was made of. That hadn't changed.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics?

when put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.

Told them to have more and more babies. Kept them pregnant and poor and ignorant.

She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them.

I mean some can predict the future because they create it," said Rosenblatt. "Oh, not the good things. We can't make someone love us, or even like us. But we can make someone hate us. We can't guarantee we'll be hired for a job, but we can make sure we're fired." He put down his apple cider and stared at Gamache. "We can't be sure we'll win a war, but we can lose one.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

If I could have a superpower, it'd be the ability to make all my enemies change their minds and see things MY way.

The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Let them hate so long as they fear. (Oderint Dum Metuant)

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

You're lying," he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn't. "I am not-" "You can say it a million times, but that doesn't make it any more true." Peter smiled then, so guileless that Lacy felt it smart like a stripe from a whip. "You might be able to fool Dad, and the cops, and anyone else who'll listen," he said. "You just can't fool another liar.

The best lies are the ones that are wrapped around a core of truth.