Quotes About Manipulation

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.

In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a spotlight, I use certain movements that draw the eye instinctually.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie's affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.

As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

Since we don't use any type of currency manipulation schemes - we have a floating exchange market - we are very glad to consider any type of process that would stabilize the Mexican peso.

Liberal criticism of George W. Bush's minority cabinet and staff selections reveals just how much the left has come to rely on the manipulation of group identity in America as a means to political power.

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.