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Quotes About Manipulation

The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268
~ Diane Setterfield
Las palabras tienen algo especial. En manos expertas, manipuladas con destreza, nos convierten en sus prisioneros. Se enredan en nuestros brazos como tela de araña y en cuanto estamos tan embelesados que no podemos movernos, nos perforan la piel, se infiltran en la sangre, adormecen el pensamiento. Y ya dentro de nosotros ejercen su magia.
~ Diane Setterfield
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic. When I at last woke up to myself, I could only guess what had been going on in the darkness of my unconsciousness.
~ Diane Setterfield
If you dazzle a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him.
~ Diane Setterfield
The only thing better than getting away with doing a crime was to get someone else convicted for having done it.
~ Dick Francis
In short, climate change is the ruse to get the public to go for full socialism.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
What intrigued me most was how one can get away with such a big lie. The answer is you have to dominate all the large megaphones of the culture, from academia to the movies to the major media.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
With this cultural arsenal at their disposal, big liars can spin out falsehoods with the confidence that no one else has a large enough megaphone to challenge them. They can have their lies taught in classrooms, made into movies and TV shows, and reported in the everyday media as the unvarnished truth. This is how big lies come to be widely believed, sometimes even by the people who are being lied about.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Mussolini and Hitler became "right-wingers," and the people who supposedly brought them to power became "conservatives." The Left, then, became the glorious resisters of fascism and Nazism. To make this story work, fascism and Nazism had to be largely redefined.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
For Alinsky, morality is a scam. Morality is the cloak of power. Activists appeal to the language of morality but recognize that it is a mere disguise. As Alinsky puts it, "Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times. . . . In action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent with one's individual conscience. . . . You do what you can with what you have, and then clothe it with moral garments."13 In
~ Dinesh D'Souza
One can see here that for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. Alinsky
~ Dinesh D'Souza
We can see this quite clearly if we follow the fortunes of Hillary Clinton. She is a woman who has clearly had fortuna on her side, and in addition, she and her husband have ingeniously and ruthlessly manipulated their circumstances for personal gain. Hillary
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Their expertise would not be as outside agitators but as inside power brokers. If Alinsky had survived, he could have taken justified pride for his role in being their guiding star, their Godfather. To a considerable degree, he was the one who taught them how to steal America.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Yet while lying about the Jews and plotting their destruction, Hitler accuses the Jews of lying and of plotting the destruction of Germany. Hitler employs the big lie even as he disavows its use. He portrays himself as a truth-teller and attributes lying to those he is lying about—the Jews. Could there be a more pathological case of transference, and specifically, of blaming the victim?
~ Dinesh D'Souza
My goal was to strip away the race card from the Democrats—a card they had been successfully playing against Republicans for a generation.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
So successful were the Democrats in this con that in 2005 a head of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, went around apologizing to black groups for sins that had actually been committed, not by the Republicans, but by the Democrats.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
~ Don DeLillo
A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become intelligence.
~ Don DeLillo
It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.
~ Don DeLillo
There is only one truth. Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world.
~ Don DeLillo
The pattern match begins with a search for a substring of a given string that has a specified structure in the string manipulation language
~ Don DeLillo
But I only said, "Terrifying data is now an industry in itself. Different firms compete to see how badly they can scare us.
~ Don DeLillo
Are secrets a tunnel to a dreamworld where you control events?
~ Don DeLillo
Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world.
~ Don DeLillo