Quotes about Manipulation
Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.
- Dallas Willard
God has paid an awful price to arrange for human self-determination. He obviously places great value on it. It is, after all, the only way he can get the kind of personal beings he desires for his eternal purposes. And just as we are not to try to manipulate others with impressive language of any kind (Matt. 5:37), so we are not to harass them into rightness and goodness with our condemnings and our "pearls" or holy things.
- Dallas Willard
Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.
- Dallas Willard
Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.
- William Faulkner
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
- William James
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
- Henry A. Wallace
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
- Henry Ford
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.
- Henry Ford
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?
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.
- Michael Wolff
It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.
- Donald Trump
by which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All
- Thomas Merton