Machinations Quotes

The basic tactics of the Communist Party are deceit and trickery.

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.

How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster? This must be the product of a great conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

... a tissue of machinations against the liberties of the country.

Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

I was attracted and repelled by what I saw of politics in my father's house. Attracted by the adventure, the opportunity. Repelled by the grasping, the artificiality, the obvious manipulation and role-playing, the repetition of emotion without feeling, particularly that: the repetition of emotion.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

Lisa Vanderpump is a manipulative person and when I was on the show I did a lot of her dirty work for her.

The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy.

When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

The assembly [post-revolutionary Dutch ruling body] has been reduced to a disastrous struggle between two opposed parties, each busy tearing each other apart. I can find nothing in its business but self-interest, cabals, and underhand plots.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?