Quotes About Manipulation

There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

O sea que el amor es el cuento del tío por el que de pronto te venden lo que vos no querías ni regalado.

Ha comprendido que la mujer, que una sola mujer es más fuerte que todos los hombres juntos, y de ahí que los hombres necesiten apretarse entre ellos como niños débiles y asustadizos, necesiten fanfarronear y bravuconear y hablen del amor como de una matufia urdida por ellos para hacer caer a las mujeres en la celada del sexo. No hay que creerles, no hay que preocuparse. Llegado el caso, una mujer puede con una sola mirada desbaratar toda esa falsa tramoya de los hombres.

How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of the systems being analysed? 'I think that's rather a flattering account of what goes on here. With some notable exceptions it's mostly a bunch of very egotistical people, very ambitious people, who are primarily interested in their own careers.

It is quite possible for leaders to become self-promoting without realizing it. Over time, defending their reputation becomes important to retaining and growing control. They become harder to disagree with because of the combination of the control they exert within the formal structure and the relational support they can gather privately outside of it.

They're not their rules. They're our rules, the rules of the Western countries, the civilized side of the world. And every terrorist knows how to manipulate them in their own favor.

It's kind of a circle. When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid." "But why would they want that?" "It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.

When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid. -But why would they want that? -It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.

They want us all wound up and mistrusting each other. Norms and abnorms, left and right, rich and poor, all of it. The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get.

Because all the talk about preventing a war is bullshit. What they really want is to control it. They want to generate and maintain war at a low simmer. They want us all wound up and mistrusting each other. Norms and abnorms, left and right, rich and poor, all of it. The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get.

There are no true friends in politics.

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.

The French would do whatever it took to get Britain to commit itself. In 1909 they produced a carefully faked document, said to have been discovered when a French commercial traveler picked up the wrong bag on a train, which purported to show Germany's invasion plans for Britain.

Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

That's the pattern of most subversive organization," Peter explained. "They use feelings of patriotism and loyalty to a chosen faith to stir up feelings of hate and so set one group against another.

Oh my," she said, feigning innocent. She fanned a hand over her face. "Revenge is so sweet!

Well all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

there are individuals who by virtue of their genes or upbringing or psychological set, or maybe all three, have a frighteningly enhanced capacity to be brainwashed.

Right wing or left wing, tyrants always try to control communication. They always fail.

Caucasian privilege lounged and sauntered, draped itself casually about, turned vigilant and commanding, then cunning and devious. We