Quotes About Manipulation

ideologues of every stripe, as well as folks with interests economic, political, or personal, can interpret data and statistics to suit their own purposes...

each technique carries a consistent message more important than any method: that each act that expresses trust in ourselves and belief in the validity of our own experience is always the right path to follow. Each act that is manipulative or filled with pretense is always self-destructive.

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

Availing himself of the innate Apache love of fighting, he offered full army pay to warriors willing to turn against their own people (he had plenty of takers).

Right, wrong—those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.

When the weatherman spoke he did so in smooth, rolling clauses, full of long words such as schoolmasters use when they are teasing a favored pupil, but he told them very little about himself. His talk was like cotton candy, that huge sweet bauble that fills the eye but leaves little in your belly when you've eaten it.

I cheated," the Cat said, and rested a finger on her lips. "Bad lady that I am. I used a small insert." She grinned at the companions, who glared back at her through clenched teeth. "And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn't it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they're told.

Now, let me tell you what's going to happen," Castillito said, righting her chair. "If I don't walk out of here within another two hours, details of your Eliter heritage will be anonymously delivered to Gorlan and your precious Stonal.

Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there's always got to be some of it to keep them going.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

Cults have refined their recruitment operations down the centuries until they have become masters of extracting devotion and money from their damaged followers in exchange for their own vision of salvation.

Politicians see conspiracies everywhere

Thanks to Dybal's recognition gift, his mind perceived her longtalk trying to insinuate itself into his consciousness, a soothing compulsion for him to come to her just as she had suggested. She was trying to dominate him.

Greg weighed up her personality, figuring how to make his play.

And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn't it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they're told.

coercive leaders are Adolf Hitler in Germany, the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, Jim Jones in Guyana, and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, each of whom has used power and restraint to force followers to engage in extreme behaviors.

News Corp. used the same footage to sell patriotism in America and in China, and in both places the people bought it.

We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.

Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.

She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.

So on the fourth day they said to Samsonís wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your fatherís household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”