Quotes About Manipulation

I think the Mailman is taking us on one at a time, starting with the weakest, drawing us in far enough to learn our True Names—and then destroying us.

Be cool, dear student. The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

The worst tyrannies were the ones where a government required its own logic on every embedded node.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

is just that I am not so sure — as a writer — how I feel about him using poets and historians of their caliber to push —" "Lies?" I asked. Hadn't Octavianus used a masterful campaign of besmirching my mother to turn all of Rome against my father? "Public policy," he said flatly.

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [. . .] they will have to undertake something.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The nature of business is swindling.