Quotes About Manipulation

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

It worked better than she had hoped. Even husband Gerald gasped in surprise, and seemed to be trying to push the table back down—into the floor. George too seemed taken in, bless him.

Rosa is pushing all the buttons.

That was what magic was: greed. Magic wielders didn't wield magic; it wielded them

Manipular las mentiras es una cosa; dejar que ellas te manipulen a ti, otra muy distinta.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

Always tell as much truth as you can when you're lying," he said. "Nothing deceives like the truth.

There was once a king in a far-off land who said, when you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

The more she sticks the knife in, the more I resent it, the less I actually think about what she's been saying. That, of course, presupposes that the object of the exercise from her point of view is to change my mind about what I'm doing, as opposed to beating me to a pulp.

The way I see it, the truth is just barren moorland, all useless bog and heather. It's only when you break it up and turn it over with the ploughshare of the Good Lie that you can screw a livelihood out of it. Isn't that what humans do? They take a dead landscape and reshape it into what they need, and want, and can use. I've never hesitated to adapt the world to suit me, when I can get away with it.

better not to piss off this loathsome and troublesome man, just in case we need him one day. Which is why nobody is ever pleased to see me, and why I never have to buy my own drinks.

It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.

Some of the information in those binders was even manipulated to appear more damaging to Oppenheimer.

Strauss was unfazed by the extraconstitutional nature of things he was doing to undermine Oppenheimer's defense

the tyrant must "stifle everything that might give rise to two things, self-assurance and trust.

If you can direct the power you call up, it can do a lot.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of fine art through vulgar admiration, and the utter waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation.

If someone is about to go to hell, then Kundavai Devi possesses the power to send him to heaven instead. That's one kind of power. But do you know what Nandini would do? It wouldn't be amiss to say that her power is a shade stronger than Kundavai's. Nandini would convince you that hell is a much better place than the heaven and would have you jumping happily into hell. That's her power!

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

I did not make my disclosure about the deceitful manipulation of the U.N. before the invasion of Iraq began in order to garner fame or fortune.