Quotes About Manipulation

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.