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Quotes About Manipulation

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.
~ Ben Galley, The Written
Truth is the first casualty of war.
~ Sophie Masson, 1914
You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.
~ Amit Kalantri
If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.
~ Lionel Suggs
I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda's these day's? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?
~ Nynke Visser
We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
~ Otto von Bismarck
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
~ Mae West
To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.
~ Ieyasu Tokugawa
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
~ Chanakya
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
~ Karl A. Menninger
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
~ Jack Kerouac
Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
~ Burton Malkiel
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
~ George Orwell
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
~ Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
~ Sallust
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.
~ Thomas Jefferson