Quotes About Manipulation

Cornwallis had grown so desperate that he infected blacks with smallpox and forced them to wander toward enemy lines in an attempt to sicken the opposing forces.

The world of politics was filled with duplicitous people and Grant was poorly equipped to spot them, remaining an easy victim for crooked men. "They studied Grant, some of them, as the shoemaker measures the foot of his customer," wrote George Hoar.

when Archbold took control in the mid-1890s, he kept domestic prices high while depressing foreign prices to diminish overseas competition.

It was the same act of ventriloquism: the State Department talked, and Tom Lamont moved his lips.

As we shall see, the truth was far more complex, for the bank would skillfully harness the Fed and use it to amplify its powers.

You see, this scheme is bound to work. It means an absolute control by us of the oil business.

But the moves reflected a new wish to shape opinion

Nevertheless, the general public came away with the impression that John D. was pulling the strings.

Bribing Frank's secretary with candy and theater tickets, Slaght gained access to Frank, who was no less protective of his father than John was.

With virtuosic brilliance, Rockefeller and Flagler played these three railroads against each other in seemingly endless permutations.

He was now a master puppeteer, adroitly manipulating his marionettes, with the strings artfully concealed.

coaxed America into war for profit.

In creating this self-protective structure, Rockefeller could run Standard Oil while simultaneously sidestepping responsibility, erasing incriminating evidence, and avoiding contact with his victims.

Standard might soon be in a position to eliminate their oil traffic at whim.

Machiavellian

Hamilton induced Philip Schuyler to renege on his pledged support for Duane in favor of King.

With finely honed political instincts, George Clinton saw that Hamilton was overreaching, and he secretly aided King's candidacy in order to drive a wedge between the Schuylers and the Livingstons. When New York picked its second senator on July 16, 1789, Rufus King came out on top. Just as Clinton suspected, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was irate and gradually moved into the governor's camp.

sometimes people use complete honesty as an excuse for sadism.

By giving her what she most wanted, he also placed her and the Indonesian government under his direction. What had been granted could also be taken away. That was an authority he had just awarded himself.

Rathbun's strategy followed Hubbard's dictate that the purpose of a lawsuit is "to harass and discourage rather than win.

But we're all still KGB really. Old wine, new bottles.

Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed.

The fantastic cascade of bullshit coming down from senior officers with nothing better to do.

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.