Quotes About Maneuvering

I always say that Religion and Politics are just clever ways to make un-content people content with their un-contentedness.

She was gauging him, trying to work out what cards he had up his sleeve. For now he might be able to keep her off balance by smiling meaningfully and dropping hints, delaying the moment in which she realized that she held all the cards, and that his well-brushed sleeves held nothing but his arms.

Like medicine, truth could be used as a poison by someone cunning enough.

PSA: The rich are very good at using generosity to get what they want.

Mr. M. was in all ways the model of a band director, and by that I mean he could have led an assault on an innocent nation, enslaved its peoples, and had them marching in pinwheels, all in the course of one profoundly hot afternoon.

There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.

Intelligence. Cunning. Secrecy. These are the tools of war.

The guy could sell sunlamps in a cancer ward.

The task of getting rid of Oppenheimer was far too important to leave to the clownish, sensation-seeking senator from Wisconsin. It would require careful planning and skillful maneuvering. After leaving Hoover, Strauss returned to his office and wrote to Senator Robert Taft, urging him to block McCarthy if he attempted to launch an investigation of Oppenheimer. It would be "a mistake," he wrote. "In the first place some of the evidence will not stand up.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.

In a three-way negotiation, the weakest party actually has the most power - because his allegiance added to either of the other two will choose the eventual winner.

power-over as working like this: "I will define who you are and then I'll make you believe that's your own definition." This chilling explanation

At the end of the day, I always had a list of five or six who were worth trying out. The game was to keep them on the string, to promise them a job, but to get a free fuck first. Usually, it was only necessary to throw a feed in them to them in order to bring them back to the office at night...

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

This was I.S.I. in microcosm: an institution well practiced at manipulating the C.I.A. and the Taliban simultaneously.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.

Qui, au fond, a eu l'idée de retourner le principe de Clausewitz, qui a eu l'idée de dire : il se peut bien que la guerre soit la politique menée par d'autres moyens, mais la politique elle-même n'est-elle pas la guerre menée par d'autres moyens?

Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.

Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about, said the voice of Maurice. They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.