Manipulator Quotes

• A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Feelings, Intelligence

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• Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Principles, Purpose, Use

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

  Meg Greenfield

  Thinking, People, Dangerous

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

  George Ayittey

  Blood, Hands, Reform

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

  Martin Amis

  Reputation, True Man

  Martin Amis (1986). “The moronic inferno: and other visits to America”, Jonathan Cape

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• Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

  Robert D. Hare

  Opportunity, Views, Psychology

  Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press

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• Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Emotional, Control Someone, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 07, 2011

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• There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.

  Ted Haggard

  Teacher, Selfish, Communication

  "Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century". Book by Ted Haggard, 2002.

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• If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Simple, Games, Play

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• If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Energy, Want

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• By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Political, Technique, World

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• Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Strong, Lying, People

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• I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

  Frances McDormand

  Heaven, Directors, Needs

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• Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, People, Opinion

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• Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Coward, Used, Fascists

  Misattributed. "Christopher Hitchens Never Said That Memorable Line About Islamophobia" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 12, 2014.

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• If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

  Edward Bernays

  Control Someone, Knowing, People

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p.71), 1928.

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• People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.

  Alex Jones

  Play, People, Enemy

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.

  R. S. Thomas

  Two, Giving, Imagination

  "Selected Prose" by R. S. Thomas, (p. 131), 1995.

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• I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

  Owsley Stanley

  Thinking, People

  Source: medium.com

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• Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

  Henry Ford

  Mind, Canada, United States

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• The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Winning, Long

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Powerful, Hands

  Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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• Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

  Tom Clancy

  Art, Real, Lying

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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• I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

  Joey Skaggs

  Issues, Attention, Passionate

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