Quotes about Manipulation

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

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

To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them.

Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.

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.

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.