Quotes about Manipulation

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

Politics and religion have always worked in tandem as the primary forces that control humanity. Politics compels compliance by authority, while religion draws compliance by attraction. When these two combine forces, their power becomes virtually absolute.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

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

Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14).

But what clouds our view is the Enemy's skill at cropping photos.

The Enemy masterfully paints an inviting picture of freedom.

He was utterly incapable of resisting the maneuvers of the mealy-mouthed scoundrel that the Neapolitan Vincentian, Bugnini,77 a man as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty, soon revealed himself to be. Even

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him.2 Do

A man who flatterers his neighbor, spreads a net for his feet