Quotes About Manipulation

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Politics ruins the character.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

he could command an audience, set his box upright on its pole, opened its case, and began to play, bidding me dance to the music. The puppets never tired, of course; and I suppose he thought I was like them.

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

You know the worst thing about bad people, Grace? It's what they make good people do.

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

Muchas veces una mentira es una verdad mal contada, pero en este caso la gran mentira escondía las verdades.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

clanking against the side of a stainless steel pot—signaled that her mother was busy in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Easing the door shut, Brianna leaned against it and closed her eyes. To pull this off, Brianna couldn't just act calm, she had to be calm. Otherwise, her mother would surely notice. But at only thirteen, she'd become pretty good at finding ways around her mother's

Once a 'Romeo Pimp' has gained a victim's trust, he systematically breaks down her resistance, support systems, and self-esteem. Victims are coerced into submission through gang rape, confinement, beatings, torture, cutting, tattooing, burning, branding, being deprived of basic needs, and threats of murder."   —The State of Human Trafficking in California

Diceive the wicked, and Destroy them without Mercy.

The scoundrels have stooped to so lowest level that to sell their vaccines, they have even made the caller tune of Corona advertisement to inculcate fear in minds of people.

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother.

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

You cannot get emotionally involved in the writing, the object for the writer is to manipulate the reader so that the reader feels the emotion. Quote from a radio interview on the Reality Break show in 1997.

Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.