Quotes About Manipulation

If someone liked me, I waited until she was off guard, and then I told her I didn't want to be her friend any more. I watched the confusion and upset. The tears. Then I ran off, triumphantly in control, and very fast the triumph and the control leaked away, and then I cried and cried, because I had put myself on the outside again, on the doorstep again, where I didn't want to be.

Humans don't share; we exploit.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived... (Bk2:3)

We should not, with Warburton, conclude from this that politics and religion have among us a common object, but that, in the first periods of nations, the one is used as an instrument for the other.

One always wants what is good for oneself, but one does not always see it. The people is never corrupted, but it is often fooled, and only then does it appear to want what is bad.

History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.

I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

People without leverage work for those with leverage.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.