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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.
    book-quotemanipulationidolatrychurch-and-state

  2. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.
    book-quotepowermanipulation

  3. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not love that is the order of the day. The privilege of power is at the heart of patriarchal thinking. Girls and boys, men and women who have been taught this way almost always believe love is not important, or if it is, it is never as important as being powerful, dominant, in control, on top-being right. Women who give seemingly selfless adoration and care to the men in their lives appear to be obsessed with 'love,' but in actuality their actions are often a covert way to hold power. Like their male counterparts, they enter relationships speaking the words of love even as their actions indicate that maintaining power and control is their primary agenda.
    book-quotelovefeminismpower

  4. Pat Conroy _ My Losing Season: A Memoir

    The words "I love you" could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row.
    book-quotemanipulation

  5. Kresley Cole _ Lothaire

    Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.
    book-quotelovemanipulationconfusion

  6. George Saunders _ The Braindead Megaphone

    In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us.
    book-quotestorymanipulation

  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Left Hand of Darkness

    His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, "cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization." It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer {or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever} hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
    book-quotepoliticsmanipulation

  8. Bret Easton Ellis _ Imperial Bedrooms

    Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.
    book-quotemanipulation

  9. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones."
    book-quoteleadershipmanipulationvision

  10. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins
    book-quotemanipulation

  11. Robert A. Caro _ Means of Ascent

    He {LBJ} played on their fears as he played on their hopes.
    book-quotemotivationleadershipmanipulation

  12. Gillian Flynn _ Sharp Objects

    Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.
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