Quotes About Manipulation

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

How inadequate we are in our attempts to bring nature under our control, Henry thought. How careless of us to believe that we can manipulate diseases to kill, rather than to cure. We're like schoolchildren playing with matches. One day we'll burn the house down.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

I thought that you had changed me, but it was just a trick. You sawing back and forth above my chest till I was cut in half, dark magician.

Like a kettle, a lever, a lathe I have used you.

Get the United States to start a war so they won't intrude in yours.

You learn how to coerce people to do your bidding . . . willingly.

Don't take me for a fool, Eve. That's not why you did it. You made a political calculation. You know that the DA hates me and wants to be the next mayor. You figured that aligning yourself with him would benefit you more than being tied to a sheriff who is already smeared by a prison-beating scandal.

You sound very confident, Teddy," Duncan said. "Is that because you tossed the rape kit or altered the case number so it would never be found?

The corrupt, self-serving prick was trying to distract you from the truth to save his career, remember?

There's nothing to recognize about us. We're not on the screen or anything. That's the benefit of hiding behind children or CG actors or other actors--making them do your bidding. You hide in your cave like a creep and pull the puppet strings.

That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

You've never seen a politician who's kept his promise. You've never saw a politician who wasn't a liar.....They want you to do what they say because their word is better than that other guy...It's not!...All politicians are assholes.

A foster child will expose the cracks in the familial veneer. Insomuch as the foster child is a cipher to the dysfunction of a family and also a seer. But the responsibility is too great for a child and so he finds himself manipulated and blamed for what he exposes by the simple virtue of innocence. The wrath this innocence incurs is deep and dark.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else

Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!