Quotes About Maneuvering

Sometimes you have to stutter step; sometimes you have to spin inside. You have to run some games.

People tell me I look skinny when they want something from me. What does she want from me?

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

mixing cajolery with lies, threats, and violence. The Reichstag fire provided them with apparently good reasons for pushing through an emergency decree

Do you know what the true basis of political power is? Not guns or troops but the ability to get others to do what you want them to do. By whatever means are appropriate.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

when you haven't got the numbers, be vicious. It's called minority politics.

The word 'change' has been abused so many times.

During bargaining talks, he always tried to maneuver the other side into saying yes as early and as often as possible.

Where power was perceived, power was given. For his entire life Conphas had been surrounded by tutors.

You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths.

Probably they prefer we don't see them, but they want us to know what's happening with the weather because fear debilitates. Maybe they want us frightened, cowering, and pliable.

People like her are everywhere these days. When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they'll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they're being obedient.

He is enchanted by the power of the law and by the infinite ways that the system can be manipulated to achieve any desired end.

Not for the first time, I wondered just what kind of work Frank had done during the War. He certainly seemed to know a lot about maneuvering soundlessly in the dark.

As most of us know, both the left and the right of the political spectrum is controlled by the same people

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

I'm very good at manipulation.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.

logic, that's the appeal to fear. Make people afraid of something and you can make them do what you want.

Mike was very good at making sure all roads led to him. He set himself up very intelligently. He was the guy who could get your kids into the best private schools; he was the guy who could get you into the best hospitals. We didn't know it at the time, but he had a personal press guy, same one as Donald Trump—Howard Rubenstein—and this guy engineered a big Wall Street Journal story.

The abuser creates confusion because he has to. He can't control and intimidate you, he can't recruit people around him to take his side, he can't keep escaping the consequences of his actions, unless he can throw everyone off the track.

he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.