Quotes about Manipulation

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

What better way to destroy me than to sow suspicion of the woman I love?

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.

But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.

Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!

Others, with softer smiles, and subtler art, Can sap the principles, or taint the heart; With more address a lover's note convey, Or bribe a virgin's innocence away. Well may they rise, while I, whose rustic tongue Ne'er knew to puzzle right, or varnish wrong, Spurned as a beggar, dreaded as a spy, Live unregarded, unlamented die.   For

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.

Sin by its very nature is more often quiet and secretive than loud and public. For every overt episode of rage, there are dozens of jealousies, manipulations, white lies, and malicious thoughts, none of which immediately register on the conscience. And, according to Scripture, the greatest sin of all is even more covert: I do not love the Lord my God with my whole mind and heart. If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.