Quotes About Manipulation

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

How did you know that we could get him to do whatever we want if we pretend he's in charge?" Sabrina asked Daphne. "It's what I do with you" the little girl replied. "You two are exactly the same

Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do.

and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

I loathe examinations. They prove simply nothing, only that it is possible, after all, to mould another into the shape of one's whims.

Each tool reshapes the one who is apparently the master of the tool. I ask myself this: At what point does the tool, the servant, become the real master?

When you look outside yourself for affirmation, you give extraordinary power to the affirmer. When people have extraordinary power, they tend to abuse it.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson once argued, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

od najwcze?niejszego dzieci?stwa nauczyli?my si? wyszukiwa? w ludziach s?abo?ci, za pomoc? których mogli?my na nich wp?ywa?.:

By? te? draniem, podst?pnym uwodzicielem, który zostawi j? ze z?amanym sercem.

There is no such thing as "people power" (democracy). The world is run by oligarchs for oligarchs. You have all been conned. You are all slaves of capitalism. You are ruled by a psychopathic elite just as your ancestors were. Nothing has changed, except the tactics of the elite. The weak, passive, submissive masses still go on being ruled by an elite few. They love it!

The market is simply a proxy, or a pseudonym, for the rich and powerful, for the capitalist elite. In expressions such as, "The market did x, y, or z", or, "The market reacted badly to the news", or "The market demanded a new policy", or, "The market gave it the thumbs down", if you simply substitute "capitalist elite" for the word "market", you will comprehend what's going on.

Tüm diktatörlerin gayet iyi kavrad??? üzere, gelece?i de?i?tirmek isteyen önce geçmi?i de?i?tirmek zorundad?r.

Barty Crouch, Jr.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

The problem with the politicians of both parties in the US is that neither of them have a real agenda except to feather their own nests. They both have their hands deep in corporate pockets. All the rest is sleight of hand and distraction to keep the public occupied with trivia, divided against each other, and thinking their vote matters.

They're going to come in here and blow smoke up your ass,' the coach was saying. 'They're going to give you blow jobs , tell you how great you are, they're going to pile it on thick…

The Godfather, Part III (1990): Vincent Mancini: Don Lucchesi, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand. Don Lucchesi: You understand guns? Vincent Mancini: Yes. Don Lucchesi: Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

institutions that basically sell you an umbrella, only to take it back as soon as it rains.

Giving them 'junk food for thought,' and rewriting history and law.

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.