Quotes About Manipulation

No one recognized – and exploited – this new power more quickly than Adolf Hitler

A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer's perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts.

The conscious mind—the self or soul—is a spin doctor, not the commander in chief.

Los líderes -autoritarios- emplean los formidables recursos del Estado para hostigar a la oposición, crear falsos partidos opositores, utilizar los medios de comunicación controlados por el Estado para propagar relatos favorables, manipular las reglas electorales, inclinar los registros de votantes y manipular las propias elecciones.

authoritarian populism.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

I love advertising because I love lying.

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

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.