Quotes About Manipulation

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.