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Quotes About Manipulation

gente se ha inventado todo tipo de formas de hacer que las cosas parezcan diferentes de lo que son en realidad. Una habitación puede sumirse en una noche artificial. El Botox transforma los rostros de las personas en algo que no son. El TiVo te hace creer que eres capaz de congelar el tiempo, o al menos de reordenarlo a tu antojo.
~ Jodi Picoult
Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.
~ Jodi Picoult
In her experience, the moment you showed you were weak in front of someone, they'd use it against you.
~ Jodi Picoult
A rule of thumb: the truth teller merely conveys, while the liar often tries to convince.
~ Joe Navarro
It is difficult to understand because you and I are not psychopaths. Things like this only make sense to them. Stalin, said it best, because he knew it best: "Kill one person and it's a national tragedy, kill a million people it is a statistic." And so he did because he could and that is the nature of the psychopath. They get away with as much as they can.
~ Joe Navarro
Truthful people convey, the dishonest try to convince.
~ Joe Navarro
Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it.
~ Unknown
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
~ John Adams
Oh, by the way, the plot: it almost slipped my mind. Charlie French bought my mother's pictures cheap and sold them dear to Binkie Behrens, then bought them cheap from Binkie and sold them on to Max Molyneaux. Something like that. Does it matter? Dark deeds, dark deeds. Enough.
~ John Banville
He liked to bewilder his pupils, it was a form of tyranny.
~ John Banville
A person with a religious spirit is one who uses My Word to execute his own will!
~ John Bevere
We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us
~ John Boyne
He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.
~ John Boyne
The people are behind him for now. He has infected them with his hatred. He demands absolute loyalty, and when anyone dares to criticize him, they lose their position. I think he will lead a great army, but what will be the result?
~ John Boyne
uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt.
~ John Boyne
The poisonous pedagogy justifies highly abusive methods for suppressing children's vital spontaneity: physical beatings, lying, duplicity, manipulation, scare tactics, withdrawal of love, isolation and coercion to the point of torture. All of these methods are toxically shaming.
~ John Bradshaw
F. False self—confused identity. Your self-worth depends on your partner's success or failure. When you're not in a relationship, you feel an inner void. You feel responsible for making your partner happy. You take care of people to give yourself an identity. You wear masks, calculate, manipulate and play games. You act out rigid family roles and/or sex roles. When your partner has a stomachache, you take the antacid.
~ John Bradshaw
Having lost heart, they believe they must manipulate in order to get their needs met.
~ John Bradshaw
Governments rely on threat and trauma to survive. The easiest populace to rule is weak, poor, superstitious, preferably terrified of what tomorrow may bring
~ John Brunner
The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him.2 Do
~ John Bunyan
A man who flatterers his neighbor, spreads a net for his feet
~ John Bunyan
By-ends represents the kind of man who has lifted himself up through craft and manipulation, loves all that is sophisticated and refined, and uses his religious affiliation to advance his own career. His earthy bank account is all that matters. He has no account in Heaven and no checkbook backed by true faith upon which to draw. 4.
~ John Bunyan
Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower.
~ John C. Maxwell
How the Committee of 300 Arranges Elections The term "fair and free elections" has no meaning in the U.S. The candidates for the presidency are selected by the Committee of 300 so in reality it does not matter who "wins" the election and goes on to the White House. The
~ John Coleman