Quotes About Manipulation

Just one more line, please. I'll do anything. And I mean anything." "Good, we've got him hooked," said Ryan. "It won't be long now before he's on heroin." Josie added, "Then it's just slavery, pedophilia, and murder." "Don't forget incest," said Flora.

I don't mind introducing you, but I have to warn you that she has a tendency to take over people's lives. Also, she sometimes comes out with bizarre and even paranoid remarks, and the best thing is just to say 'Yes, yes' and act sympathetic.

The sophist is basically philosophy's fascist, which is why, with him, there can only be war.

Even when we think of empathy as a tool for good, it might not be a good idea to oversell its strengths, and we should remember that there will always be people who will use it against others for their own benefit.

it could be selling you anything. It could be a cult religion that could separate you from friends and family, or a quack medicine that could leave you paralyzed, or bogus political information that causes you to elect a numbskull to the presidency. God forbid.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?

You are a manipulator when you try to persuade people to do something that is not in their best interests but is in yours. You are a motivator when you find goals that will be good for both sides, then weld together a high-achieving, high-morale partnership to achieve them.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.

It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that he earned a medal of honor when he did not, so that we will love and revere him.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.