Quotes About Manipulation

It is just as easy to use a good principle for bad ends as it is to use a bad principle for good ends.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

E allora l'uomo è più straniero nella parte del boia che in quella del condannato; più nella verità se manovra la ghigliottina, e meno se ci sta sotto.

Il potere è sempre altrove. Il potere non è nel consiglio comunale di Palermo, il potere non è nel Parlamento della Repubblica: il potere è altrove.

When I was fifteen, I met a young man with a mantra. His mother taught it to him: 'There is only one way to handle women. Fool them, fuck them and forget them.

Lucrezia knew well that Elisabeth had fallen under Isabella's malignant thumb, and the usually kind duchess found a mean streak that Lucrezia's sensative antennae picked up, but did not show.

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

The more devoted a woman shows herself, the sooner the man sobers down and becomes domineering. The more cruelly she treats him and the more faithless she is, the worse she uses him, the more wantonly she plays with him, the less pity she shows him, by so much the more will she increase his desire, be loved, worshipped by him.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

You were careless enough to leave me the choice. I choose therefore that you shall be my slave, and I shall make a toy out of you.

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

You are the sort of man who could quite ruin a woman

Dr. Carter G. Woodson who said: "If you can determine what a man shall think, you will never have to concern yourself with what he will do. If you can make a man feel inferior, you will never have to compel him to seek an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you can make a man feel justly an outcast, you will never have to order him to the back door. He will go there himself, and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one!

Despite the destructive nature of this personality profile, many narcissists have a history of appearing friendly and agreeable-at first. Only after people have ongoing exposure to the private world of a narcissist do they experience the pain such a person can cause.

Despite their general disinterest in others' feelings, narcissists yearn to be admired; they need to win others' approval, even as they posture to keep a manipulative edge. They become masters at feigning interest, when in fact they are not interested at all. They can cover contempt for someone with seemingly genuine friendliness. So skilled are they at appearing likeable that even close associates can be fooled into assuming that all is well in the relationship even when it is not.

Passive-aggressive people have not developed enough trust in others to be truly open. In fact, they shun opportunities to reveal who they really are because they feel that there is too much risk that they will lose power if they reveal themselves.

Others manipulate through pouting, giving others the silent treatment, being secretive or stubborn, conniving behind others' backs, or being intimidating. Whatever the means, their behavior indicates that they place no value on open, straightforward communication; their only concern is that they get their way.

If compliance will get them what they want, they will feign a cooperative spirit. If they think lying is necessary, they will say whatever needs to be said. If it seems profitable to keep secrets or to reveal only partial truths, they will do that.

When people pleasers go too far in their pleasant ways, they may inadvertently be guilty of encouraging others to continue in selfish or disrespectful behavior. Instead of receiving kind gestures with a spirit of gratitude, some people respond with an attitude of entitlement.

Remember that Backstabbers are sneaky,slick,seductive, and sabotaging.

Backstabbers operate out of insecurity, believing they have to have perfect order to eliminate any threat to their power.

Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

A sense of powerlessness fuels some backstabbers.