Quotes About Manipulation

Liars; those people who hide behind the truth for no real reason but for their own selfish gain.

When someone does something to you that takes away some of your control or power, you get angry. If you have low self-esteem, then that means by definition that you do not feel in control. And you will be darned if someone is going to come along and rob you of your last few remaining drops of independence and power, of feeling in control.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you can go."

He's playing you because you're the only one who doesn't know.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

Im afraid of three things: Women, snakes, and the police. They all have the ability to hurt me and make it look like it was my fault.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you.

En política latinoamericana la cosa no es poder ni querer sino joder.

Mire, yo le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma".

Pero todos se sirven del mismo mazo, todos se alimentan de la misma mentira. Y nosotros leemos, y, a partir de esa lectura, creemos, votamos, discutimos, perdemos la memoria, nos olvidamos generosa, cretinamente, de que hoy dicen lo contrario de ayer, que hoy defienden ardorosamente a aquél de quien ayer dijeron pestes, y, lo peor de todo, que hoy ese mismo Aquél acepta, orgulloso y ufano, esa defensa.

Y nosotros leemos, y, a partir de esa lectura, creemos, votamos, discutimos, perdemos la memoria, nos olvidamos generosa, cretinamente, de que hoy dicen lo contrario de ayer, que hoy defienden ardorosamente a aquél de quien ayer dijeron pestes, y, lo peor de todo, que hoy ese mismo Aquél acepta, orgulloso y ufano, esa defensa.

Cuando la guerra se disfraza de paz, es la peor de las paces. Invade como ayuda, pero deja cenizas por donde pasa y muertes por doquier. La paz se vuelve hipócrita, los mansos no le sirven. Agrede a los otoños y les pisa las hojas. Y por si fuera poco, su razón de ser tiende a la sinrazón.

le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma».

ideology has the function of presenting exploitation in a favorable light to the exploited, as advantageous to the disadvantaged.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Las mentiras machacadas día y noche se vuelven verdades.

without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage.

Anyone who intrigues for power, deserves to get it!

Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return

I found a number and hit the call button. Heard ringing, a click. "Greetings, Franco," said a smooth male voice. "Is it done?" Fuck no, and fuck you , I almost said, and hung up.

When it came time to populate the one thousand miles of our nation-state, we planted 70 percent of the people at the southern end where only 30 percent of the water was made. This wasn't misplaced people, we told ourselves. This was misplaced rain. In our resolve to move those molecules of water to where the crops and houses grew, California pulled off the ultimate sleight of hand.