Quotes About Manipulation

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.

When I was younger I would be taken for a ride alot, I would believe anybody at face value, I was quite a lallu actually everybody would fool me, exploit me for my work and talent and I would cry about it later.

This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the party high command, and for the party high command.

Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.

I'm too much of a control freak.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

O'Malley did it for the express purpose of embarrassing me in an election year." The President's eyes locked on MacVeagh's, but the younger man grinned.

Gente egoísta é que diz isso. Chama de egoísta todo mundo que não faz o que eles querem.

What does guile mean?" "Deceit, duplicity, dishonesty

We all just use each other in one way or another. To feel good. To feel bad. To feel nothing at all. The lucky ones are real good at it.

A lie often told enough will eventually be accepted as truth. - Acsah

I'll take care of that." Merrick bent and pinched Sarah's chin. "You say anything to anybody about me being in this room with Cleo, and I'll cut your little pink tongue out. Understand?" Sarah believed him, and nodded her head. He smiled slightly and let her go. She darted to the corner and crouched there, trembling and feeling sick. "See?" Merrick crowed gleefully. "Nothing to worry about. She won't say a word about us to anyone.