Quotes about Manipulation

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

The Democrats are evil, and they crave power. They're willing to destroy any decent man or woman to attain it.

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Certainly, the contradiction of tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied. However, is it not also the case that often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division, and at times even violence in society?

If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against your problems, you get the impression you're fighting for something. Even though all you're really doing is just . . . fighting. For nothing.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

Lord Foulgrin: You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole. (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)

Of all the enterprises in which the human heart engages, none lends itself more to abuse and manipulation than the activities of religion. For here, sacrifice and greed can meet in the most trusting and exploiting context.

Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clusters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.