Quotes About Manipulation

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

What I heard one of the veteran black hats say to a trainee remains true today: "Social engineering is the easiest way to break into a system.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

wasn't sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.

I wasn't sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.

I wondered if she knew that everything she said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something she'd actually cultivated deliberately. I didn't think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.

I heard him and could well imagine what he had been like in those business meetings, the career that had made him rich and arrogant. He was a man who was used to being heard, after all. He couldn't bear it that in some way I had the power to dictate his future, that I had somehow become Mother again. It

The morning of the wedding dawned bright and balmy, as I had secretly known it would. Girls like Alicia always got their way.

He had the ability to twist almost anything I said or did so that I seemed stupid. During

Cómo es que tienes derecho a destrozarme la vida pero yo no tengo ningún poder en la tuya?

He had the ability to twist almost anything I said or did so that I seemed stupid.

When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.

that opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to rob you blind.

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

Lobbyists used to operate by getting you to believe in what they were pushing. Now they operate by scaring you into wondering what will happen if you don't. Politics has become a job for the weak-minded and thin-skinned among us. The only principles these people know are the ones they're paid to have.

Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

A person that is humble of heart doesn't care about being the center of attention. They are interested in pleasing God rather than taking front stage. The spirit of witchcraft, in contrast, likes abnormal attention, but most importantly, attention behind the scenes. People operating in witchcraft don't want to share your attention with others but want to keep you totally for themselves.

Witchcraft operates best in a whirlwind that gets everyone on edge, stirred up and at each other's throats. [...] People operating in witchcraft are masters at pitting people against one another in order to separate and isolate them.