Quotes about Manipulation

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Churchless born agains are not interested in being pressured into immediate engagement. They left the fold before, and they will do it again if they feel they are being manipulated to participate in programs or activities merely to help an organization reach its quantitative goals. If they return, it will be for spiritual and relational reasons; they do not want to be numbers on the bottom line or cogs in the machine.

They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

A master salesperson is a strategist at mind manipulation.

Satan is always content to hide in the shadows of a worldview if he can exploit that worldview to his own ends.

That all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.

There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.

Satan seeks to capture your thoughts because they are what will trigger your emotions, which in turn influence your actions. Thus, addictions are prolonged through emotional manipulations.