Quotes About Manipulation

She wasn't trying to spy on me -- she was just trying to rob me

People who underestimated you were easier to manipulate.

What they do not realize—and what you must realize—is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

Ham rubbed his chin. "I don't know, Breeze. It's an interesting question. By influencing her emotions, did you take away her ability to choose? If, for instance, she were to kill or steal while under your control, would the crime be hers or yours?

Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you've got power over them.

For the greater good." "That has been the excuse of tyrants throughout all time.

Funny, how quickly someone can stop calling you a miscreant and a rogue when they want your help

You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!

Life as a human being is about posturing and influence.

Breeze shrugged. "Manipulation works so well on a personal level, i don't see why it wouldn't be an equally viable national policy.

Unfortunately, Alanik, the game takes no care for your interest. It plays you either way

Cadsuane, do you believe that I could kill you? Right here, right now, without using a sword or the Power? Do you believe that if I simply willed it, the Pattern would bend around me and stop your heart? By . . . coincidence?

Because he knew we'd never rebel on our own, so he gave us no choice.

My dear friend, the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics? - Breeze

Progress was taking nature and putting a box around it.

I didn't know enough about human politics to know who was correct, but I did know enough about politics in general to guess that everyone would interpret the law in the way that best suited themselves.

Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately

Men in power always pretend things like virtue, or divine guidance, some kind of mandate to 'protect' the rest of us. If we believe that the Almighty put them where they are, it's easier for us to swallow what they do to us.

What they do not realise - and what you must realise - is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elements, bend nature to our wills. It makes us feel as if we're in control.

That was always their mistake—assuming they knew why Shai did what she did.

Ah, Ham, Kelsier thought. I wish I could explain everything to you. Plots behind plots, plans beyond plans. There was always another secret.

Of course," Blushweaver said. "I positively love people who do as they should. 'Should' being defined as whatever I think is best.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she'd said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age. No