Quotes About Manipulation

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

Hay algo vil, hay algo sucio en hacerse pasar por quien no se es, en conducirse taimadamente, en ganarse la confianza de otro tan sólo para traicionarla, aunque ese otro sea un malvado, un enemigo, un asesino.

So who does shape the world, then? Who is in a position to do that?

Por encima de todo, había aprendido la lección que su soberbio hijo jamás entendería. Que el verdadero poder, si quiere perdurar, debe ser anónimo, permanecer oculto y manejar los hilos desde las sombras. Pues si nadie sabe donde reside, nadie intentará suplantarlo.

Arrancar lágrimas al público es fácil comparado con el objetivo número dos: hacer que decidan lo que tú quieres.

El objetivo número tres, consistente en lograr que el público haga algo o deje de hacerlo

La seducción es manipulación, la manipulación es la mitad de la argumentación y, por consiguiente, muchos de nosotros la rehuimos.

We see a kind of tattoo and assume a gang member. Or we hear an accent and assume a terrorist. Politicians play off this conclusion-leaping. They use our leaping to manipulate us. Not so with cats. Being predators, they think more simply. If they fail to understand us, it's probably our fault.

Seduction is manipulation, manipulation is half of argument, and therefore many of us shy from it. But seduction offers more than just consensual sex. It can bring you consensus. Even Aristotle, that logical old soul, believed in the curative powers of seduction. Logic alone will rarely get people to do anything. They have to desire the act. You may not like seduction's manipulative aspects; still, it beats fighting, which is what we usually mistake for an argument.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

I've focused for hypnos in the past, and they didn't feel

It was so typical of the little sneak. And after all she'd done for him.

They're crooked as corkscrews, the lot of them!

Madame Alexandra, if you don't open the door, I'll smash all your imitation china, I'll rip up your fake Persian rugs. Let me in, or it'll cost you a damn sight more than anything I want from you.