Quotes About Manipulation

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.

Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone

He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.

The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.

People in pain are so vulnerable, such easy marks. We're desperate for reasons, for a sense of control, even if it means incriminating ourselves.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

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

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.