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Quotes About Manipulation

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
~ Daniel Webster
Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.
~ Frank Zappa
No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.
~ Matt Corby
If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.
~ Robert De Niro
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.
~ John Fogerty
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
~ Karen Joy Fowler
It's all about raising more money. And they have to keep this alive, so Hillary [Clinton] got cheated.
~ Rush Limbaugh
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
~ Sean Parker
It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
~ Steven Soderbergh
Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?"- Eric, club dead.
~ Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules
~ Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them
~ Walter Kerr
New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.
~ Orrin Woodward
The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch.
~ Leigh Bardugoh
For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
~ Politics knows no currency.
Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems.
~ Amit Kalantri
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.
~ Molly Ivins
If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the tap root of everything wrong with the U.S.-China trade relationship.
~ Peter Navarro
The mother tongue is propaganda.
~ Marshall McLuhan