Quotes About Manipulation

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

If you're making everybody happy, you're lying to somebody.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

Great liars are also great magicians.

I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don't have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

It's my job to manipulate feelings.

Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.

It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.

The children of the lie use emotions to manipulate.

Gandhiji knew the mind of the British well and that's why he was able to manipulate them.

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

You have to fight to get your show not only on the air but then to keep it what it is and make sure that it doesn't get manipulated into something else.

Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

People internalise marketing.

The soldier was like that. He was an expert in getting other people to do what he wanted. The only creature that could make the soldier do something he did not want was Midnight, and Midnight did things she did not want only when Whippersnapper wanted something. That put the kitten right at the top of the pecking order. A kitten!

Mother knows you don't have to be unkind to someone in order to exploit them.

He lied about that. He didn't want to annoy you. He's a slitherer-outer, if you know what I mean, Your Majesty.

The more I see of witchcraft, the more it seems just an easy way to be nasty.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.