Quotes About Manipulation

Te mentirá, te manipulará y, lo creas o no, el juego que él juega es un juego muy peligroso.

Las mentiras tienen un curioso poder: el que las inventa las obedece.

La magia deforma la realidad en interés de otro, con el fin de provocar una duda liberadora; la trampa, en cambio, deforma la realidad en detrimento de otro, con el objetivo de robarle su dinero.

Ainsi, en cette journée terrible où le monde entier tremblait à l'idée de la guerre imminente, un vieillard adipeux, paralytique et désarmé, avait réussi à détourner du Golfe l'attention d'une poignée et prêtres médiatiques.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any weakness to a cat, the cat is gonna take over.

Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel, because it gives them too much power. You're probably better off not showing weakness whenever you can avoid it, because they'll go for you.

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

Cambridge Analytica will try to pick at whatever mental weakness or vulnerability that we think you have and try to warp your perception of what's real around you.

Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.

Women use men's weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction.

Anybody that lives in America and has parents with a moderate amount of wealth can be spoiled. I see it every day - kids who are just running their parents over to get what they want because kids are smart, and they know they can manipulate their parents.

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.

Because a lot of people are hurting economically and being shafted by the very wealthy, it's been possible here in the United States of America to organize them and persuade them that to elect a nincompoop like Donald Trump is actually in their best interest. When clearly it isn't.

I don't think most people are aware of the exotic and extreme tools at the disposal of the most powerful and wealthy men of America when they are bent at silencing accusations against them.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.