Quotes About Manipulation

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.

Nowadays LOVE and GOD has become a tool for franking people. So beware of being used.

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you're worthless… but you're not worthless, you're unappreciated.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

Not kill us, Pigeon corrected. She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.

She immediately moves into me and says she is sorry and then she's guiding me toward the bedroom and this is the way I always wanted the scene to play out and then it does and it has to because it doesnt really work for me unless it happens like this.

Later, as she's putting the dress back on, I notice a bruise on the side of her torso that I had'nt seen before. Who did that to you I ask. Oh that She says? You did

Hayek later decided that what really separated him from his friend Keynes was that the latter always believed that certain advanced thinkers (Keynes among them, of course) could skillfully and accurately manipulate the social order to their own ends, without ill effects.

Frank Macy looked surprised. That was what Cab thought as he studied the dead man's eyes. Surprised that he had been conned. Surprised that a man who was smart, cool, and lethal could be played for a fool.

It's one thing to be the mistress. That's easy work. But to get the ring? That takes a ruthless cunning you can't help but respect.

It flattered me that he found my story intriguing. I didn't understand then, or maybe I was too young to realize, that men can be like that about things they want to own. That one way to control someone is to learn everything about them, so you always have ammunition to use when you need it.

Politics is a tangled web, an intricate labyrinth, an ever-shifting kaleidoscopic pattern. And it is not pretty.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. —Bene Gesserit Precept I

Truth belongs to those who control that perspective.

My father lied to me! He distorted the events, taking credit, hiding the extent of the brutality and suffering—even Omnius knew it. On the other hand, Serena had told him the truth.

The blood of innocents has always been the currency of charismatic leaders, Kwyna said

I am but a pawn on the Imperial chessboard.

In a society where hard data is uncertain at best, one must be careful to manipulate the truth. Appearance becomes reality. Perception becomes fact. Use this to your advantage. Empress Herade, A Primer on the Finer Points of Culture in the Imperium