Quotes about Manipulation

A master salesperson is a strategist at mind manipulation.

Satan is always content to hide in the shadows of a worldview if he can exploit that worldview to his own ends.

That all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.

There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.

Satan seeks to capture your thoughts because they are what will trigger your emotions, which in turn influence your actions. Thus, addictions are prolonged through emotional manipulations.

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.

Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

Terminological inexactitude

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Most people are manipulated by the approval of others, the paycheck that supports them, and the lifestyle that has handcuffed them to the brass ring of perceived success. On this path we eventually live like slaves to a man-made system. We chase the goals of others instead of pursuing our own dreams. We anesthetize our despair with the next purchase, pill, or plunder.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.