Quotes About Manipulation

I can let people take advantage of me at times.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.

People who can't take advantage of opportunity take advantage of people.

Don't let people take advantage of you because they will.

Trump manipulates the fearful by promising that he will use his fraudulent deal-making prowess to protect and take care of his supporters.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Putin operates like a super PAC, taking advantage of opportunities for negative campaigning. The purpose is to show that the U.S. has no moral authority.

People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.

So that's kind of like how I was, even body guarding with guys I was more of a talker and ran my mouth and smiled and stuff and it kept people off, especially if a guy's is fired up and you're laughing at him or smiling or winking at him it just messes with their mind.

You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council wants them to say, too, if they like his face.

From now on it is not up to you to decide whether or not something is true, but whether it is in the interests of the National Socialist Revolution.

The Nazis saw the educational system in the first place as a means for inculcating the young with their own view of the world, still more as a means of training and preparing them for war.

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process of adjusting our public image. We fear so deeply what we think other people see in us that we talk in order to straighten out their understanding.

You have to burn beliefs when they become convenient lies solely for the purpose of gaining and holding power.

I don't believe in conspiracies. Guys will say anything to get laid.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. —WILLIAM CLAYTON

Exactly. I'm the man who makes things happy behind the scenes, but no one knows. I'm Dr. Mabuse." "That's great. Just remember: Dr. Mabuse ended up in the nuthouse." Kasabian makes a face. "Always with the negative waves, Moriarty." I shake my head. "You aren't Donald Sutherland." "And you aren't Clint Eastwood, so just hold the damn book while I finish.