Quotes About Manipulation

And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not... I kept on loving the pretty clothes - and not him at all.

Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

So I think I'll remove him from your mind forever, this way. I'll put my hands, so, on each side of your head and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut and that will blot him out.

That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.

With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him.

there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy. Oh, all the tricks that never failed to work—except with Ashley.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.