Quotes About Manipulation

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart's hatred on one another." "But

I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.

Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese...

He looked like he could tie a knot in a fire poker, eat it, and crap it out straight.

You can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.

Many of these men, and the women too, sometimes even more so, would like to use your heart against you," she says. "They think it's a ticking time bomb in your chest, waiting to explode." "Maybe it is," Diane blurts out. I look at her. Severin smiles. "Maybe that's our strength.

The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control one another, but what right do we have to do so?

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

No one had ever told me I was not a poor relation. They meant to steal from me and keep me believing I was beholden to them.

It was useless, as pointless as it ever was. "She's a succubus, you fool.

It was all about control, in the end, and I had it.

It was a doll's smile. Plastic. She added a head-tilt and blank gaze.

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.

Darkness uses light as bait on its hook!

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

No fox is foxier than man!

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil!

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?