Quotes About Manipulation

The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

All middle men are bad.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.