Quotes About Manipulation

They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please.

The raising of wages excites in the worker the capitalist's mania to get rich, which he, however, can only satisfy by the sacrifice of his mind and body.

First to control the people, first control the media." Karl Marx

Maths was the one true thing, according to Nancy. Not love? Teddy said. Oh, love, of course, Nancy said, in an offhanded way. Love is crucial, but it's an abstract and numbers are absolute. Numbers can't be manipulated. An unsatisfactory answer, surely, Teddy thought. It seemed to him that love should be the absolute, trumping everything. Did it? For him?

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

Man is always exploited through fear.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.