Quotes About Manipulation

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote.

Some people are trying to create hatred among Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Parsis by following the divide and rule trick adopted by British rulers, but they have been failed miserably.

Well you know, the big trick with 'Saw,' the sleight of hand that you have to pull off is that - spoiler alert - the bad guy, the antagonist, is right there in front of your face, literally.

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

National security is that old rabbit that's pulled out of the hat every time politicians run out of other tricks to keep you in check.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.

One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

I'm fully aware of the tricks that are often played in elections here in South Carolina.

I've got a few tricks when it comes to psychology and stuff.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.