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Quotes About Manipulation

The day will come that thou shalt wish for meTo help thee curse this pois'nous bunch-back'd toad.
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
~ Play the villain.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.
~ William Shakespeare
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
~ William Shenstone
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
~ William Somerset Maugham
She could do to me with one eyebrow what two weeks without water can do to a plant.
~ William Sutcliffe
Vox populi, vox Humbug.
~ William T. Sherman
People are deceived and drawn on step by step, till war, death and destruction are upon them.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.
~ Willis Goth Regier
Flattery works like a drug.
~ Willis Goth Regier
People generally can not believe themselves so easily manipulated and controllable. This is precisely why they are so easy to manpulate and contol.
~ Wilson Bryan Key
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
~ Wilson Mizner
People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their style,because in that way they win.if you allow yourself to be sucked into their expectations,you have not only let them get away but you are bound to feel frustrated,helpless and eventuall your bad side of nature will reached its climax.
~ Windy dryden
Terminological inexactitude.
~ Winston Churchill
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
~ Winston Graham
Stalin's opinion on the subject boiled down to this: "Education is a dangerous weapon, whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands, and at whom it is aimed.
~ Winston Groom
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
~ Winston Spencer Churchill
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
~ Wole Soyinka
Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?
~ Wyndham Lewis
When the people who are in power want to ... create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.
~ x malcolm
The slavemaster took Tom and dressed him well, and fed him well, and even gave him a little education -- a little education; gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves look up to him. Then he used Tom to control them. The same strategy that was used in those days is used today, by the same white man.
~ x malcolm
In the North, they do it a different way. They have a system that's known as gerrymandering.... It means when Negroes become too heavily concentrated in a certain area, and begin to gain too much political power, the white man comes along and changes the district lines.
~ x malcolm ii
They have got a con game going on, a political con game, and you and I are in the middle. It's time for you and me to wake up and start looking at it like it is, and trying to understand it like it is; and then we can deal with it like it is.
~ x malcolm iii