"The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched."

-- Vernor Vinge

#Heart Quotes #Manipulation Quotes

“Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within a caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system”
“I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.”
“You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.”
“Girls, do yourself a favor, don't ever bring us anywhere to pick anything out - ever, ever. You don't need us there.”
“Infants are interesting only to their parents.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”
“I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.”
“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.17, New Directions Publishing
“Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.243

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