Quotes About Manipulation

when something is in relation to something else, that something else can be manipulated.

Salespeople are experts in the art of psychological manipulation, making the client trade, often against his own interest

Half the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.

It is much easier to signal self-confidence if you are exceedingly polite and friendly; you can control people without having to offend their sensitivity.

without reading him, using his ideas in a self-serving selective manner—ideas that he most certainly did not endorse in the form they are presented.

When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear . . . We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy.

sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;

On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

They are practised politicians, every man of them, and skilled to adjust those preliminary measures, which steal from the people, without its knowledge, the power of choosing its own rulers.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for 'freedom', be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

Cormac was completely aware that he was being manipulated, but how he could not see. He reckoned that when he did find out, the surprise would be a nasty one. That was how it usually went.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it.

Monster only had the power that you gave them

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

We are not the enemy," he says. "That's what the enemy always says.

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

The Admiral's using us, he says to the kids around him. Don't you see that? Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. I'd rather be used whole than in pieces, Hayden says.

The sad truth about humanity, Risa was quick to realize, is that people believe what they are told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

And so it gave Ayn the opportunity to observe. To let it play out, and allow Goddard a few moments of fear and shock, before she gleaned the intruder. Because as Constantine suggested, she could mold Goddard's actions—but only when he was reeling, and his fury was whipped into stiff but malleable peaks.