Taapsee Pannu Quotes

Tactics are manipulative.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

there are some people of a timid or very opportunists mind who press on us the necessity of leading people on by little and little, concealing the object they have in view, until people are so far committed to the steps to be taken towards it that they cannot draw back again

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

Machination is worth more than force.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.