Quotes About Manipulation

Lord save us all from the machinations of an intelligent female.

I've been doing the hotel accounting long enough to know that two and two equals whatever you want it to be. It's simply a matter of perception and misdirection.

Plausible deniability is a useful thing in Sinful.

Jane Austen mastered her unscrupulous charmers before she did her heroes.

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

A starving man learns to respect the hand that feeds him, the one who cares for his most primal needs. So when I begin training a woman, my plan is intentional. I strip her of the most basic necessities. Food, clothing, shelter. Though her needs are contrived by me, the cumulative effects of my training will not be in vain.

I've done many things in my role. I've ended the lives of those who deserved death for what they'd done. I've trained women, broken men, coaxed powerful people to trust us when they never should have. I've stolen and plundered, ravaged and destroyed. But now Sadie holds in front of me what I want but can't demand, coerce, or force: her adoration. Her respect. Hell, her trust.

Scissors. He'd pulled a credit card and a pair of scissors from the drawer. Which meant he could either bribe or stab his adversary. Or he could go into a frenzy and cut up Jill's credit card. That would confuse 'em.

ACOAs often develop an external locus of control, believing that something outside of themselves will decrease the emptiness or the pain they feel inside. Thoughts such as "If the house is clean enough, I will be good enough" or "If I win the big one at the casino, I will be somebody important" are attempts to control blocked pain and fear.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Things weren't real to you. They were just raw material for you to reshape to tell a story you liked better. You could never just listen to a boy play guitar, you'd have to turn it into a poem, make it all about you.

It is in the interest of those who control our energy to make it seem that the status quo is natural, right, and impossible to change. It is in our interest to figure out this is not always true." —Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Freedom is slavery," wrote George Orwell in his novel 1984.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, no tanto a hacer lo que no quiere, sino más bien lo que no sabe si quiere, porque casi nadie sabe lo que no quiere, y menos aún, lo que quiere

The ones who most shape the world are those who are not exposed, who can't be seen; unknown, opaque beings about whom almost no one knows anything. Like the hidden man in the story, except that instead of living a passive vegetable existence, they plot and weave webs in the shadows.

Hay hombres que se aprovechan de las mujeres tímidas, o de las muy jóvenes, o de las educadas, de las que tienen horror al enfrentamiento. Incluso a dar una negativa clara. Las hay, aunque no te lo creas. Que al final se dejan mucho, sólo por no hacer un feo o no montar una escena.

it's ridiculous, isn't it, that after all these centuries of practice, after so many incredible advances and inventions, we still have no way of knowing when someone is lying; naturally, this both benefits and prejudices all of us equally, and may be our one remaining redoubt of freedom.