Quotes About Manipulation

You know, I could fire you. I could even arrange to get you killed. Or kill you myself. (Joe) Ooo, big scary threat. That might hold water if it wasn't for the fact that I know how much you hate paperwork. (Tee)

Welcome to life as the lowest pawn in a deadly game.' – Kizira

Sandman had two personalities. One could turn a female into his angel for the night in a blink, and the other could make a terrorist piss himself.' (Carlos)

If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.

A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

The Democrats have made the low-information voters think they care about 'em. And the worst thing you can do is invest in the Democrat Party, the worst thing, in terms of life potential.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

For it is, to a large degree, the scientific and governmental elite and the selected media that it controls that determine what we are to believe is real, for these monoliths are the principal beneficiaries of the dominant ideology.

Listen to him long enough," Judith said, "and he can make you believe the polar cap is made of vanilla ice cream.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

The shortest route to ascendancy is the degradation of someone or some group. It is a dangerous and deadly shortcut to self-esteem that never arrives at its destination.

Oh, it's a case of 'they think I'll think that they'll do A, so they'll do B because I wouldn't think they'd think of that but then because I might think I know what they're thinking they'll do A after all because I wouldn't think they'd think that way

It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the attention and sympathy that it created among attractive young women like Evanlyn and Alyss. And he liked the fact that Will tended to walk on eggshells around him when the problem was mentioned. Keeping Will off balance was always desirable. ~Halt