Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

When you start to think about the drives that humans have, I think sometimes we find we are simpler than we thought and more easily manipulated.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

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

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Sometimes it is a way of controlling others, including family members, because you don't know how to connect to them in any other way. Money can also serve as a scorecard to indicate how well you are doing, the impact you are having, if you are winning.

When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Devil, you've got me all in a whirl. I'm wise to your game.