Quotes About Manipulation

Sometimes a manipulator's own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption. There are such people in our society.

that fool Public Relations man who's always clapping his wet hands together and saying how overjoyed he is that mental hospitals have eliminated all the old-fashioned cruelty

I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes—people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

No. No, listen. They don't bust you that way; they work on you ways you can't fight! They put things in! They install things. They start as quick as they see you're gonna be big and go to working and installing their filthy machinery when you're little, and keep on and on and on till you're fixed!

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

Politics is activity in relation to power

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.