Quotes About Manipulation

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

Money is a mechanism for control.

as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie.

This was Khalil's doing, and Josh's, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her.

Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,

He was little more than a hammer with which to beat people over the head, an instrument for

Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence.

is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness.

something that is called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.

Obama has said his opponents were trying to 'scare and mislead the American people,' when in fact his opponents are the American people whom he is trying to scare and mislead.

I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit his understanding, not the other way around. I could not make him see reason, could not make him regret his actions. It would be a mistake to try.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. —Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

If people with good reputations are a resource for whom others compete, this leads to all the dirty tricks that people use against one another when they are competing for something of value. One such move is to "poison the well," to destroy the perceived value of the resource. When the resource is a person's reputation, some individuals will spread malicious gossip to destroy or damage it (Roland Barthes described this as "murder by language").

We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.

It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan