Quotes about Manipulation

Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak. That's not love. That's manipulation. And it's all so unrealistic.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.

History is Force dressed up.

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.