Quotes About Manipulation

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

Life is not controlled by the forces of nature....it is only manipulated by the decisions we make...either good or bad

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

It takes a dumb person to make a smart one a pretty person to make an ugly one and a real one to make and fake one

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

You're going to meet people who lie to get what they want, but they teach you a valuable lesson. Who not to trust.

Always LISTEN to your instincts. When someone is using you, or playing you, and things aren't adding up your instincts will tell you.

I hate it when someone is only nice because they want something.

Let me ruin your life, let me break your heart, then I'll ask you why we can't be friends. Let me rip your world into little pieces, let me destroy who you thought you were, and then I'll ask if we can be friends.

Hate that feeling you get when you know someone has used you.

Interesting when someone wants to play you but then upset when you put an end to being played.

Mas as coisas que sabemos, temo-las, se não entre as mãos, pelo menos no pensamento, onde as dispomos à nossa vontade, o que nos dá a ilusão de uma espécie de domínio sobre elas.

Choderlos de Laclos,

To know a thing does not enable us, always, to prevent its happening, but after all the things that we know we do hold, if not in our hands, at any rate in our minds, where we can dispose of them as we choose, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power to control them

But one reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one's mistress. We are beaten and happy because we believe ourselves unbeaten and victorious