Quotes About Manipulation

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

And I wonder---if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings. . . .

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

It would be years before I understood that tenderness is the weapon used by the torturer to win over his victim.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

This world is full of sheeple, not people, all longing to be told what to do, how to think. Sheeple who are lost without someone to follow. And you know the best part? Even when most of them know they're being led over a cliff, they'll still follow because it's less effort than thinking for themselves. It's the human condition.

Share prices will be now artificially jacked up to a big high by inside operators as interest of common public in stock market is waning. Especially Bank shares

The Mahabharata is our story, but in this modern version - our Shakuni has an English avatar.

You are being manipulated when someone reduces, by any means, your ability to be your own judge of what you do.

Giving reasons during conflict to justify or defend a viewpoint is just as manipulative as giving reasons to attack that viewpoint. Neither of these routes is an honest assertive I want that can lead to a workable compromise of interests to quickly resolve the conflict.

If you do not recognize your assertive right to choose to be responsible only for yourself, other people can and will manipulate you into doing what they want by presenting their own problems to you as if they were your problems.

The manipulative behavior prompted by these expectations can also be seen in the general nonclinical population. These childish expectations and their consequent behavior deny us much of our dignity and self-respect as human beings. If we have the same expectations about ourselves as our manipulators do, we surrender to them our dignity and self-respect, the responsibility for governing our own existence, and the control over our own behavior.

You do not respond to your critic's statements of wrongdoing with denial, defensiveness, or countermanipulation with criticisms of your own. Instead, you break the manipulative cycle by actively prompting further criticism about yourself or by prompting more information about statements of "wrongdoing" from the critical person in an unemotional, low-key manner.

Manipulative coping, however, is an unproductive cycle.

The major stumbling block for coping well with our conflicts in living with each other is set up when we interfere with another person's decision-making process, when we routinely manipulate our fellow man's wants by making him feel anxiously threatened, guilty, or ignorant.

Vos sos la mujer araña, que atrapa a los hombres en su tela.

Thus it is a question of time as material, time that we shape as we please, that we compose and recompose, time that we play with for the pleasure of it.

Dans le cercle du pouvoir, il n'y a aucun secret, seulement des types qui font semblant de ne pas savoir.

whole shitload of very dangerous poisons and powerful hallucinogens are hidden behind a lot of mumbo jumbo.

Tyrants tyrannize no doubt thanks to a host of little tyrants, who are tyrannized and no doubt tyrannize in turn.

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

Knowing a thing does not always mean preventing a thing, but at least the things we know, we hold, if not in our hands, at least in our minds where we can arrange them as we like, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power over them.