Quotes About Manipulation

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Keep them poor and keep them tired, and they'll never leave." How well he understood his people.

Charlie was booked as "MANSON, CHARLES M., AKA JESUS CHRIST, GOD.

Jones generally forbade drinking alcohol, but on this night at the Geary Boulevard temple he told the P.C. members that it was all right for once. Each of them drank some, and after their cups were emptied Jones informed them that their wine had been laced with poison—all of them would die within forty-five minutes to an hour. There was no antidote. They were doomed.

I'm saying that if you want a dog to drop one bone, all you gotta do is give him a new one." "And ow am I supposed to do that?" "When I want to get reporters off my back, I call in an anonymous tip that Justin Bieber is getting a crew cut on the other side of town.

But sometimes I wonder how much of my life is real and how much of it is rigged. Because half the things that happen to me are so ridiculous, I wonder if someone else is pulling the strings

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

private group prayers were the modern equivalent of a backroom cigar.

What Tim [Kreutter] is doing is owning people, training them and owning them. Even if he wants them to do good things, the principle is corrupting. It is the seduction principle.

If we keep him for ourselves, we can do anything we want with him!' 'OH, REALLY?! Does that include baking him in a quiche?!' 'NO, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THAT! IT INCLUDES EATING HIM RAW!' 'That's too bad. He would've made a fine pastry filling.

If you purposely get other people involved that you're not supposed to, that'll cost you Gary's life, too. Understand?

I want you to kill the man that my husband hired to kill the man that I hired to kill my husband.

She had a nice laugh, even when she was using it as a weapon against him.

once he was cocooned by its embrace, he would be too indoctrinated to perceive it.

The severity and intensity of this disorder comes from the NPD individual's desperate pursuit to gain a sense of self. He consciously understands none of this, yet his inner need to feel worthwhile causes him to manipulate people in order to maintain an endless supply of attention, control, status, money, power, or recognition.

The ultimate weapon for the abusive individual is the refusal to communicate directly....

Above all is the NPD person's need for control, particularly in close relationships.

You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?

the narcissist has learned that other people do not always do his bidding or meet his demands in the way that he expects. He has, therefore, developed formidable manipulation skills, at times deceitfully, to achieve his goals. Sometimes these skills are a highly developed ability to charm and bring others under his spell or influence.

The lower functioning NPD individual (in closer proximity to the sociopath on the continuum) will be prone to constantly bending the rules for himself although outwardly he may criticize others for a similar infraction or transgression.

Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble. Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel

Here is the knowledge, so easy and mean: find what they love and wreck it. Simple.

The thought had occurred to me as I was flying to Salt Lake City earlier that day that Ted Bundy might offer to let me stay in his apartment" (p. 74). (Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976)