Quotes About Manipulation

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.

The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

Always work the ref's blind side.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.