Quotes About Manipulation

I just hate the day I realized I was being lied to and good ppl were being used & hurt & led on. If only it was real...

Don't trust what I tell you when I'm in a good mood. If I'm being nice and sweet talking you, its all fake.

If being two-faced is an art form, I couldn't count how many fu..ing artists I'd know.

There's nothing wrong with being two-faced. Just let me know which one you want me to slap first.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Never give anyone the advantage of seeing you weak. One day they will use it against you.

Don't resort to blackmail or manipulation to get your way in your marriage. They both undermine love and trust.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Anyone who allows other people to control and guide their destiny will eventually become bitter and feel used and taken advantage of.

When we try to control relationships by being manipulative or forceful in our ideals we often find we push the other person away so much that they remove their presence, sometimes in both the physical and mental nature.

I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient, imagining the countries it wanted to exploit.

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician—which was what the General had become—had to keep his lips constantly moving.

A slogan is just an empty suit, she said. Anyone can wear it. I

Like most people, he believed that lies, no matter how often you told them, never became truth.

Forced," of course, is a euphemism with the exact opposite meaning, like "pacification," which usually involved a great degree of homicidal force on rambunctious natives.

Americans liked seeing people eye to eye, the General had once told me, especially as they screwed them from behind.

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply was low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.

We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do. They take advantage of things...and they don't question things. As long as those things work for them, then they support those things. But you see the lie beneath those things because you never got to take part.

A person can be used as a tool only if he doesn't know for what he is being taken.

An enemy is like boiling water in a pot on the stove whose button may sometimes be in your hands.