Quotes About Manipulation

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.

Someone is always feeding fat off everything you don't know.

Subliminal influence, is the constant drive to the change in consumer choices.

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

Bahram smiled to himself as he listened: the arguments were marvellously simple yet irrefutable. Really, there was no language like English for turning lies into legalisms.

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now?

Self-sacrifice can sometimes be a well-honed weapon that the fanatic wields for destructive emotional purposes. Moreover, those who are eager to sacrifice themselves will not find it difficult to sacrifice others.

But whenever Wen Fu began to shout, she always cried, cried all night long, and would not stop until I told her more lies. "Yiku, be good, and your life will be good too." How could I know that this is how a mother teaches her daughter to be afraid?

When man imposes his will on woman she knows how to give him the pleasure of assuming his power is greater and his will becomes her pleasure; but when the woman accomplishes this, the man never gives her a feeling of any pleasure, only of guilt for having spoken first and reversed the roles.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

One can always find hands for a work of destruction.

Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.

A man wants what a woman has - sex. He can steal it, persuade her to give it away, rent it, , lease it over the long term, or own it outright.

Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.

North Korea is a small country with few resources and a moribund economy. In spite of all this, however, it has managed to survive and successfully manipulate larger players, including an impressive number of the great powers.