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Manipulation Quotes
BehaviorHuman NatureManipulationPsychologyStrategy I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
Conflict ResolutionLegal StrategyManipulation Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
ControlLanguageManipulationPerceptionPower If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.
BeliefComplimentsGender DynamicsManipulationSelf-Perception A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
GriefManipulationPolitical Ethics For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
AudienceCommunicationManipulationPerceptionPolitics A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Child RightsCritical ThinkingFree SpeechManipulationPolitical Influence The most common criticism I get is that I'm being manipulated and you shouldn't use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can't think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I'm also allowed to have a say - why shouldn't I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people's minds?
ControlIdeologyManipulation There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
DegradationEffectivenessFutilityManipulationPurpose Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
ConflictControlManipulationPower Dynamics Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
AuthorityControlManipulationPowerSociety For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
CommunicationHonestyManipulationPersuasionSelf-awareness If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?
DeceptionManipulationPoliticsRhetoric Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
DeceptionExploitationManipulationPower DynamicsTyranny The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
ControlDeceptionDualityManipulationOppression War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
HumorManipulationPatienceSelf-interest I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
FinanceManipulationSpeculation Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
EmergencyFearGovernment ControlManipulationPatriotism Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
FearLeadershipManipulationPowerWar When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
DeceptionHuman NatureManipulationRelationshipsSocial Behavior I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
ArtistryCollaborationCommunicationCreativityManipulation In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.
CorruptionErosion of DemocracyManipulationPower AbuseTyranny However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
DeceptionGender DynamicsManipulation The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
