Quotes About Manipulation

I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us' and 'them,' it's incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who is an 'us' and who is a 'them' at any given moment.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

I like girls that aren't too bright because you can trick 'em a little bit.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

You want me to be truthful.. for your convenience.. but in turn.. you consider to be mendacious for your own convenience.. !! Gr8..!!

In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth.

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

Think twice before you try to convince someone by killing the truth.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a president!

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.