Quotes About Manipulation

We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying

To the sexual offender, possession is power, and total possession is absolute power.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.

He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, "willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

What is gamesmanship? Most difficult of questions to answer briefly. "The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating"—that is my personal "working definition."

How to be one up—how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.

The desire to have the power over others and dominate them arises basically from the negative thoughts that you have inside you.

Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.

Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

When arguing with a woman who is strong, intelligent, and forthright, consider using trickery, artifice, and deceit.

This was I.S.I. in microcosm: an institution well practiced at manipulating the C.I.A. and the Taliban simultaneously.

Far from being this big, booming voice, the Daily Mail is just a little man behind a curtain.

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

a man always wants something. Always. And when it comes to women, that plan is always to find out two things: (1) if you're willing to sleep with him, and (2) if you are, how much it will cost to get you to sleep with him.