Quotes about Manipulation
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
— Henry A. Wallace
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
— Henry Ford
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.
— Henry Ford
If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?
— Leonardo DiCaprio
It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.
— Donald Trump
by which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All
— Thomas Merton
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.
— CS Lewis
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.
— George Barna
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.
— Isabel Allende
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.
— Mark Twain
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
— Oscar Wilde