Manipulation Quotes

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing...

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "m...

In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn...

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize y...

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinio...

If you don’t have a sense of wonder it’s like you’re dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be us...

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one's illness or suffering,for example,was-and...

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be ind...

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words ...

They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that esp...

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each...

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. ...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa...

Oddly enough, the only person likely to be an ideal victim of complete manipulation is the President...

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead o...

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, my...

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...

Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

You know I love you. You're the only one.""She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shou...

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Daddy," she says again, this time putting more of a needy whine into her voice. It is the thing that...

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fil...

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't ...

His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he see...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal i...

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts i...

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't t...

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them the...

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and...