Margaret Atwood Quotes

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

To know is to control.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

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.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behaviour, show, condescention, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.

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.