Quotes About Manipulation

He operated by Old World rules, the blurring of right and wrong into whatever you could get away with;

She'd barely registered as a person at all. She'd been little more than an inconvenient object at the breakfast table, an annoying vase in the way of his sugar bowl, not even worth telling a decent lie to. Soon enough, when she'd lost her fat, she would have more ways to make him pay. For now, the sweetest punishment would be to say nothing, let him think she knew nothing, let him damn himself by telling further lies.

How terribly easy it had turned out to be to transform naturally occurring uranium into hollow spheres of plutonium, pack the spheres with tritium and surround them with explosives and deuterium, and do it all in such miniature that the capacity to incinerate a million people could fit on the bed of Cody Flayner's pickup.

Si uno dedica su existencia a gustar, y si adopta la imagen atractiva necesaria para ello, sea la que sea, se suele creer que uno ha desistido de ser querido por ser quien es en realidad. Y si uno consigue manipular a los demás para gustarles, será difícil no sentir cierto desprecio por esas personas, ya que han caído en el engaño.

Mrs. Neverbody's Recipe for Making Crocodile Tears To a slice of hanky-panky Add some artificial cranky. Moisten well with canned boo-hoo. Flavor with a spoof or two. Drip this slowly—as it falls Roll it into little bawls. If you're careful, while they're cooling You can spread on only-fooling. (This recipe is not worthwhile Unless you are a crocodile.)

You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5)

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

Public discourse, the moment it becomes basically neutralized with regard to a strict standard of truth, stands by its nature ready to serve as an instrument in the hands of any ruler to pursue all kinds of power schemes.

Said Mr RothSchild, hell knows which Roth-schild 1861, '64 or there sometime, 'Very few people 'will understand this. Those who do will be occupied 'getting profits. The general public will probably not 'see it's against their interest.

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

It is not in truth very difficult to befool a man who does half the fooling himself.

Celui qui vous maîtrise tant n'a que deux yeux, n'a que deux mains, n'a qu'un corps, et n'a autre chose que ce qu'a le moindre homme du grand et infini nombre de nos villes, sinon que l'avantage que vous lui faites pour vous détruire.

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all of these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed before their mouths.

Les théâtres, les jeux, les farces, les spectacles, les gladiateurs, les bêtes étranges, les médailles, les tableaux et autres telles drogueries, c'étaient aux peuples anciens les appâts de la servitude, le prix de leur liberté, les outils de la tyrannie.

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Like Ingrid Bergman in the film Gaslight, whose husband has convinced her that she's delusional when all along he's set her up, the victims often lose faith in their ability to determine what's real and what isn't. ("Gaslight" has since become a psychological term, meaning to deliberately manipulate someone.) Being duped contaminates your entire sense of self.

The ability to lie successfully, then, is partly correlated with savvy social skills. Sucking up.

Both psychopaths and sociopaths hide their true selves behind a mask, as American psychiatrist Hervey

Any organization consisting of three or more members existing for more than three weeks must only be serving the interests of its strongest member(s).

When a politician says 'yes', it really means 'may be', when he/she says 'may be', it really means 'no'. If a politician says 'no', it means that he/she is not a real politician.

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.