Quotes About Manipulation

Truth was like any other material necessary for the making of war: it had to be beaten and bent and cut into the required shape.

Learned minds can still believe wicked things, especially when their own interests are at stake.

It sounded legitimate when one put it that way – governing through the people: what could be fairer? – but really 'the people' were the mob

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

is one of the most potent myths in politics, believe me.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.

a victory of diplomacy did not come when everyone got what they wanted—that made everyone assume they'd gotten the better of her, which encouraged more extravagant demands. The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result. They must be satisfied enough to do as you wish, yet dissatisfied enough to know that you bested them.

The Father of Lies never lays simple plans

Some women," Dyelin murmured into her wine, "can make a fish bite by crooking a finger, Lady Birgitte. Other women have to drag their bait all over the pond.

Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there.

Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

They have no Aes Sedai touching the True Source to protect them. Blacksmith, perhaps the walls have weakened enough for the Dark One himself to touch events. Not with a free hand, or we'd be done already, but maybe tiny shiftings in the threads. A chance turning of one corner instead of another, a chance meeting, a chance word, or what seems like chance, and they could be so far under the Shadow not even Moiraine could bring them back.

there was nothing a woman liked better than finding men who were relaxing, then giving them orders.

I feel . . ." Egwene began weakly, and stopped to swallow. Her face was bloodless pale. "I . . . hurt." A tear leaked from one eye. "Of course you do," Sorilea said briskly. "That is what happens when you let yourself be caught in a man's schemes.

Being in control wasn't so much about the power you had, but the power you implied that you had.

To control saidar, you first had to surrender to it. Fight, and it would come wildly, or overwhelm you; surrender and guide it gently, and it did as you wished.

Women just purely enjoyed planting needles in a man.

Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly, for he will marry you and carry you away. Beware the man who remembers Hawkwing's face, for he will marry you and set you free. Beware the man of the red hand, for him you will marry and none other

She made me like her, and I cannot stop, and I hate her for it!" Said

If this was another bit of his ta'veren tugging at the Pattern, it was a bit he could have done without. The