Quotes About Manipulation

It's simply a matter of creative accounting.

Nina flutters her eyelashes at Justin. "Here's the cookies Nicole promised you in her note. We made them together," she lies, fluttering her eyelashes some more. Justin takes the cookies from her. "Thanks." He watches her silently, tilting his head. "You have something in your eye?" She immediately stops fluttering and starts twirling her hair

Two nurses with scissors could make a man naked in eleven seconds.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

I'm angry that I want to cry because I feel like I've been manipulated by the soundtrack in my head - the same one that made me cry in some shit sentimental movie with Julia Roberts where the mum is dying of cancer.

He's only slept with us when he's cold and lonely." "Isaboe, he is a hound. He will feign loneliness the rest of his life just to lie on this bed,. My bed. I was the king of this bed.

Somos juguetes en manos de los dioses —admitió el sacerdote real—. Pero somos los mortales los que les proporcionamos las herramientas para que nos conviertan en eso.

The gods do make playthings of us," the priest-king acknowledged. "But it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.

Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they're told because they are hungry to get approval.

He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He'd offered her hope, but then he was trying to hurt her. Poison. She pushed him away. "That wasn't nice.

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard.

Battle For The Mind by William Sargent.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

A felicidade é uma coisa que os poderosos criaram para ilusão dos mais pobres.

Nenhum governo do mundo manda mais que o medo e a culpa. O medo me fez viver, recatado e pequeno. A culpa me fez fugir de mim, desabitado de memórias.

A política é a arte de mentir tão mal que só pode ser desmentida por outros políticos.

Don't pretend to ask for advice when you're looking for vindication.

Michael Avenatti's message to Donald Trump supporters: Open your eyes and realize that you've been coned but we don't blame you.

also think sometimes he'd say something just to piss somebody off, even if it wasn't exactly what he thought, just to fuck with somebody. And if that person wasn't bright enough to catch on that they were just being fucked with, then they might go away thinking that yeah, he is a racist or he is a homophobe.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

to `educate' us, to keep us mentally enslaved.