Quotes About Manipulation

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

He could never care about you. He sees you in the same way they see all of us: ruthless, cruel and power hungry." He laughed callously. "I guess we're about to prove them right.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

Many people like myself who teach marketing start the course by saying, 'We're not about manipulating consumers, we're about discovering needs and meeting them,' " said Eric Johnson of Columbia University. "And then, if you're in the field awhile, you realize, yes, we can manipulate consumers.

It was like pulling the strings on a marionette. Huber and Puto found they could make the students want one beer or the other, just by adding a third choice that few or no one wanted.

One of Stevens's epigrams ran, 'Black is white with a bright ring around it.' The Orwellian tone of that statement is justified. Stevens knew only too well that you can get people to believe almost anything about their own perceptions with a little sleight of hand. Subjectively, there are no absolutes, only contrasts.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

You can crush a man with journalism.

You see control can never be a means to any practical end. Control can never be a means to anything but more control like Junk.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

'Tis the strumpet's plagueTo beguile many and be beguil'd by one.

No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,And crook the pregnant hinges of the kneeWhere thrift may follow fawning.

They fool me to the top of my bent.

What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?