Quotes About Manipulation

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.

In dealing with cunning people, we must ever consider their needs to interpret their speeches.

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you the social reformer see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

On a cloth untrueWith a twisted cueAnd elliptical billiard balls.

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos.

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

The world loves to be deceived.

Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.