Quotes about Manipulation

The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions…ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.

Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

What better way to destroy me than to sow suspicion of the woman I love?

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.

But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.

Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!

Others, with softer smiles, and subtler art, Can sap the principles, or taint the heart; With more address a lover's note convey, Or bribe a virgin's innocence away. Well may they rise, while I, whose rustic tongue Ne'er knew to puzzle right, or varnish wrong, Spurned as a beggar, dreaded as a spy, Live unregarded, unlamented die.   For

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.