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Quotes About Manipulation

Witchcraft controllers spend abnormal amounts of time with their victims: The girl that consumes all her friend's spare time. The boy that smothers his girlfriend with inordinate attention. Witchcraft will go out of the way to control and waste your time. It's not a natural thing it's a spiritual thing. Scripture says "Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house lest he be weary of thee and so hate thee" (Proverbs 25:17).
~ Jonas Clark
within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn't entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.
~ Jonathan Allen
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
~ Jonathan Davis
It was all by design, as he said later. Angry fighters don't think clearly. They don't stick to their plans. They get frustrated, sloppy. Clay knew that Liston was sensitive about his image, that he yearned for respect, and so Clay worked to deny him that respect. By labeling Liston an ugly bear, Clay was tweaking his opponent's most sensitive nerve and perhaps using racism to do it
~ Jonathan Eig
Fraud is the daughter of greed.
~ Jonathan Gash
The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.
~ Jonathan Glover
Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: 'Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred.
~ Jonathan Glover
Most psychopaths are not violent (although most serial murderers and serial rapists are psychopaths). They are people, mostly men, who have no moral emotions, no attachment systems, and no concerns for others.5 Because they feel no shame, embarrassment, or guilt, they find it easy to manipulate people into giving them money, sex, and trust.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Millon et al. 1998. Psychopaths often care what others think, but only as part of a plan to manipulate or exploit others. They don't have emotions such as shame and guilt that make it painful for them when others see through their lies and come to hate them. They don't have an automatic unconscious sociometer.
~ Jonathan Haidt
They concluded that most of the bizarre and depressing research findings make perfect sense once you see reasoning as having evolved not to help us find truth but to help us engage in arguments, persuasion, and manipulation in the context of discussions with other people.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Humans can be turned into suicide bombers, but it takes a great deal of training, pressure, and psychological manipulation. It doesn't come naturally to us.)
~ Jonathan Haidt
We are well-armed for battle in a Machiavellian world of reputation manipulation, and one of our most important weapons is the delusion that we are non-combatants.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions? -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Kill them. -Hmmm. Okay.
~ Jonathan Hickman
Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
he pulled it off, I got stuck with him. He thought by being an A-plus ass-kisser he could get into my good graces. Sleazy. Did he finally turn criminal?" Speaking evenly but no mistaking the anger. Milo said, "Finally?
~ Jonathan Kellerman
What the men in black did to their victims with such tools was not a crime.
~ Jonathan Kirsch
Version 1.3, Java has allowed for extended precision on platforms that support it. This can introduce extremely small-valued and arcane differences in the results of high-precision operations. Most applications would never notice this, but if you want to ensure that your application produces exactly the same results on different platforms, you can use the special keyword strictfp as a class modifier on the class containing the floating-point manipulation
~ Jonathan Knudsen
He's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep,' I said, trying to be fair. She was puzzled. 'How is he so successful?' 'Because,' I explained, 'he's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep.
~ Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
Dubya was their public face, and may not have even known it. He's a Texas jokester who couldn't manage a Wal-Mart and the Inner Circle put him in the Oval Office for two terms while they moved behind the scenes." "What about the current administration?" asked Gault. "The Inner Circle doesn't have the same kind of control over this president, which is why they are trying to weaken him and discredit his accomplishments.
~ Jonathan Maberry
They're politicians, and politics is about leverage, not about the truth.
~ Jonathan Maberry
As Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put it, propaganda "must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.… [P]ersistence is the first and most important
~ Jonathan Rauch
As Shakespeare said, 'The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.'4
~ Jonathan Sacks
Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface, trying to keep him afloat. Whatever happened, Nathaniel did not intend to sink with him.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Well, she may think it was her idea, but I'd been looking for an excuse to get you back all winter.
~ Jonathan Stroud