Manipulation Quotes

"Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." "I just want to conquer people and their souls" "Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the people they manipulate them" "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." "It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea." "The best way to fight an enemy is with another enemy" "The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." "Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you" "Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question" "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." "A lie told often enough becomes the truth" "I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate yourself and have others believe it." "The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses" "I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." "Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." "When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us."