Quotes About Manipulation

The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.

Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

We are either kings or pawns of men

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

Force always attracts men of low morality.