Quotes about Manipulation

He believed he could spook the other side.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren't designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.

if threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

Evil spirits work through people.

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”