Quotes About Manipulation

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

You can't believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

In a toxic-faith system, loyalty is equated with blind faith and complete agreement with the leader.

The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way.