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Quotes About Manipulation

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
~ Antisthenes
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
~ William Blum
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
~ Bernard Nathanson
If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.
~ Joel Osteen
If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.
~ Paris Hilton
I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.
~ Donald Trump
Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.
~ Dion Fortune
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
~ Mario Puzo
England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life
~ Nesta Helen Webster
Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.
~ Glen Duncan
I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
~ Taryn Manning
One of the benefits of looking innocent is you're able to get away with things. People almost never suspect you.
~ Jennifer Niven
Men are fools when it comes to women. It doesn't matter how smart you are, or how shrewd, or how much experience you've had. They're all born knowing just what it takes to find a way to muddle up your head. And given the chance, they do.
~ Jennifer Roberson
Le charme, c'est juste un moyen pour les connards de vous faire faire ce qu'ils veulent.
~ Jenny Colgan
Charm is just a way of fuckers getting you to do what they wanted you to do all along. They might as well hold a gun to your head. They're both shortcuts.
~ Jenny Colgan
You just want to keep me on this hook, right? So I'll keep chasing after you and you can feel good about yourself. As soon as I start to get over you, you just reel me back in. You're so screwed up in the head. But I'm telling you, this is it. You don't get to have me anymore. Not as your friend or your admirer or anything. I'm through.
~ Jenny Han
I clap my hands in delight. Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?
~ Jenny Han
The most believable lies are the ones that are at least a bit true.
~ Jenny Han
I never even thought about you before. Gen has always said that you are the best-looking boy in our grade, and I agreed, because sure, you are. But I still didn't see the allure of you. Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool. Maybe that's why you kissed me. To do mind control on me, to make me see you that way. It worked. Your little trick worked. From then on, I saw you. Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.
~ Jenny Han
Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?
~ Jenny Han
I'm talking about the mission. You have to get Conrad to want you back, and then you have to rebuff him. Brutally.
~ Jenny Han
Do you have any idea how badly you've hurt her, over and over again? You treat her like a toy that you just pick up and play with whenever you feel like it. You're like a little boy. Someone else took what was yours, and you don't like that one bit, so you swoop in and shit all over everything just because you can.
~ Jenny Han
Abuse of power comes as no surprise.
~ Jenny Holzer
Well, you put a gun to my head." "No. I put a suggestion in your mind and a gun in your hands.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson