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Quotes About Manipulative

Or like just another manipulative pseudopomo Bullshit artist who's trying to salvage a fiasco by dropping back to a metadimention and commenting on the fiasco itself. (p. 158)
~ David Foster Wallace
Los lambiscones se esmeran como putas menopáusicas para hacerte creer que son muy útiles.
~ Xavier Velasco
This is what Henry does. He uses people up. He takes all they give him and more. When he is finished with them he is noisier and fatter and they are husks or corpses.
~ Hilary Mantel
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
~ Unknown
Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They've had time.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
~ Jonathan Haidt
She was the sort of woman who could suck out free will and self esteem with a look.
~ Tyne O'Connell
In The Tao of Leadership, John Heider stresses the importance of interfering as little as possible. "Rules reduce freedom and responsibility," he writes. "Enforcement of rules is coercive and manipulative, which diminishes spontaneity and absorbs group energy. The more coercive you are, the more resistant the group will become.
~ Phil Jackson
Posiblemente quiero que muera porque ya no lo quiero; ya no le necesito más. De forma deliberada me involucré contigo (...) sin mostrar ninguna preocupación por terceros, ni siquiera por ti, para conseguirte, porque eres un buen material como marido y yo necesito un marido nuevo ahora que he agotado al anterior. Y si te quedas conmigo, te trataré igual que lo traté a él. Volverá a ser lo mismo otra vez.
~ Philip K. Dick
He's as smooth as a fresh-laid turd and gives off the same smell.
~ Ian Rankin
And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.
~ Alfred Molina
It'd been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work.
~ Unknown
Freaking manipulative faeries," I
~ Jim Butcher
You are being a two-faced bi..., you know that?
~ Unknown
Jedyna ró?nica miÄ™dzy psychopatÄ… i politykiem - psychopata olewa to, czy stoi po wÅ'aÅ›ciwej stronie. Zabija bez wstÄ™pnych ceregieli, to znaczy nie tracÄ…c czasu na sprowadzanie swojej ofiary do roli potwora. Natomiast politycy robiÄ… to z zachowaniem reguÅ': najpierw propaganda, dopiero potem jatka.
~ Virginie Despentes
He's one of those dangerous people that we call sociopaths. He fakes being human, because he lacks all the emotions you and I feel. He cares only about himself, and if he felt he could get away with it, he would commit any atrocity you can imagine, without remorse.
~ Dean Koontz
He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.
~ Louise Penny
relationship never starts with a fist to the face, or an insult. If it did there'd be no second date. It always starts gently. Kindly. The other person draws you in. To trust them. To need them. And then they slowly turn. Little by little, increasing the heat. Until you're trapped.
~ Louise Penny
Unlike most of us, who tend to be transparent, people rarely see through a psychopath," she continued. "He's masterful. People trust and believe him. Even like him. It's his great skill. Convincing people that his point of view is legitimate and right, often when all the evidence points in the other direction. Like Iago. It's a kind of magic.
~ Louise Penny
I don't care if you hate me now, I already know you only treat me nice when you think I am useful to you.
~ Unknown
Great liars are also great magicians.
~ Adolf Hitler
Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.
~ Shefali Zariwala
But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
~ Donald Miller
fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
~ Donald Miller