Quotes About Manipulation

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.

Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

Everybody wants to manage me; management is a touchy situation.

Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Hillary Clinton's raising the money from the people she wants to control.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!

The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation.

Evil is at its boldest when it walks an unerring path.

A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.

The dead are ever refashioned, for they have no defence against those who would use or abuse them – who they were, what their deeds meant.