Top Manipulation Quotes

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Manipulation Definition

(n.) The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art.

(n.) The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.

(n.) Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they...

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.

In the age of facebookerism and tweeterism, people have been manipulated to behave foolishly. " Look at me, i am here" culture has thrived.

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.

The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free.

His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, cutting...

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come bac...

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commerci...

In a dependent relationship, the protégé can always control the protector by threatening to collapse.

In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.

You know I love you. You're the only one.She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge,...