Quotes About Manipulation

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

People eat the shit you shovel them.

Our altruism and kindness are grounded in the capacity to imagine the world as others see it. But so is our cruelty and manipulation. Another name for this capacity to suss out the minds of others is "Machiavellian intelligence," and the name captures the dark side of this power.

Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do political opportunists.

Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren't designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.

if threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

Believing-a-lie mistakes occur because certain people just don't make mistakes when they lie. These are not just psychopaths but also natural liars, people who are using the Stanislavski technique, and those who by other means succeed in coming to believe their own lies. The lie catcher must remember that the absence of a sign of deceit is not evidence of truth.

People [also] lie because they suffer from an addictive or relational condition like a narcissistic, anti-social or borderline personality disorder. These people lie to manipulate others,

Toxic relationships are crazy-making. In them, we question our truths and doubt our reality.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.

No way. He said if I went to bed with him, he'd name me in his will. So I did it, and now, guess what, he's dead." "Congratulations." "No. Read it! Paragraph seventeen." She thrust the document in front of Steve's eyes, and he read aloud. "'Finally, I promised Ms. Gina Capretto that I would name her in my will. Hello, Gina.

Our prejudices and self-interest shape the world into what we want it to be, or fear it is.

When you know who you are, it's harder for people to fuck with you. Hollywood is dangerous because the great hobby they have in that town is fucking with other people. Building you up, knocking you down, until finally you are destroyed. They all want to create you and mold you.

children who themselves have learned the art of manipulation and control, and you have the setup for chaos.

The more you try to control another person, the more you are under that person's control." If how you feel or what you do next depends on what the person you are trying to control does or does not do next, then you are under that person's control.

I learned from my parents the ability to question, never to trust implicitly those in charge, not to believe the promises made in speeches and never to ignore the atrocious propaganda posters in public places … this kind of propaganda is designed to cause fear, and people who live in fear of a common enemy can be easily manipulated.

The weird part was that Gin kind of wanted the woman to suspect that something was going on. The best part of being up to no good is when people know you're up to no good, but can't do a thing about it.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Taa will be dead, Mors will be disgraced, and we'll arrange for you to look the hero somehow. Moff Dray. Sounds good, no?" "I'll still be in your pocket," Belkor said. "But you'll be alive. And a Moff. That's better than the alternative." Belkor said nothing.

Fear was a tool used by the strong to cow the weak.

As our knowledge of DNA expands, and our expertise in genetic manipulation increases, the concept of humanity may well become redundant.

1978, Sir Winston Lord, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, said: "The Trilateral Commission doesn't secretly run the world. The Council on Foreign Relations does that.