Quotes About Manipulation

It is necessary to lie to achieve anything of value. And a skilled liar is nearly impossible to detect.

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

But politicians quickly learned to pacify the liberals by passing laws and regulations that, to pacify the conservatives, would not be enforced.

Here you seem to have won your aunt's affection; I think I served you well there, for I believe she would do anything to spite me.

Duplicity thy name is woman!

There is no natural order. Only rules that one race invents to make the other serve its uses.

Sting the mamba with his own venom, pull down the lion with his own claws, deceive the clever chacma baboon with his own trickery.

What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!

The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in company--it is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs.

Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead. They are generally prepared for every effort you can make in your own defence, but that.