Quotes About Manipulation

People only knew what you told them, only saw what you wanted them to see. Her mother had hammered that into her head since she was a child,

Flag: What are you really up to? Waller: You want the big picture? Flag: No, I like being fed a steady stream of crap and kept in the dark like a mushroom.

The rulers wanted to fool people, since they saw that people have a kinship with what is truly good. They took the names of the good and assigned them to what is not good, to fool people with names and link the names to what is not good. So, as if they were doing people a favor, they took names from what is not good and transferred them to the good, in their own way of thinking.

Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If she can freeze his account, he can freeze hers.

they create desolation and call it peace'

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Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Too nice was a thief, robbing bits of your life out from underneath you, one experience at a time.

I can't fall in love with anyone, I make men believe what they want to believe.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''

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

I can't fall in love with anyone, I make men believe what they want to believe. from Moulin Rouge

To your friends, you're like a trash bag; they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.

Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

Unless it is by mutual consent, for a specific prayer need and for a brief period of time, sexual abstinence can become a tool of Satan. It is never to be used as pretense for spiritual superiority or as a means of intimidating or manipulating one's spouse. Physical love is to be a normal and regular experience shared by both marriage partners alike, as a gift from God.

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

Once the basic principals of 'need to know' are understood, together with the resulting manipulation of information, it is easy to observe this process in action – indeed every day, via our media, we are led by the nose along the 'required' path and we generally go quietly, because we have been well trained.

Sometimes dramatic people try to draw you into someone else's drama, and that never ends well. Interfering is like pulling on a dangerous dog's ears. Do it at your own peril.

Sometimes winning is not only a matter of knowing the rules, but of making your opponent think he knows them better.

I picked the Scholar's or the Chancellor's doors or—especially fun for me—the Timekeeper's, resetting his clock and timepieces? That had especially angered my father, but I'd only done it hoping it would create an extra hour in his day for me.

I perfected my craft, playing the quarterlords and merchants against one another as if I was a musician and they were crude drums rumbling beneath my hands, making one boast to another that I had never pulled anything over on him, making them all feel so very smart, even as I relieved them of items I could put to better use elsewhere.

It had been a clever deception from the very beginning.

Deceit knew no boundaries.