Quotes About Manipulative

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

This "gentle man" style of abuser tends to be highly self-centered and demanding of emotional catering. He may not be the man who has a fit because dinner is late but rather erupts because of some way his partner failed to sacrifice her own needs or interests to keep him content. He plays up how fragile he is to divert attention from the swath of destruction he leaves behind him.

Imagine the privileges an abusive man may acquire: getting his own way most of the time, having his partner bend over backward to keep him happy so he won't explode, getting to behave as he pleases, and then on top of it all, he gets praise for what a good person he is, and everyone is trying to help him feel better about himself!

An abusive man who is adept in the language of feelings can make his partner feel crazy by turning each argument into a therapy session in which he puts her reactions under a microscope and assigns himself the role of "helping" her. He may, for example, "explain" to her the emotional issues she needs to work through, or analyze her reasons for "mistakenly" believing that he is mistreating her.

The outcome of the way he argues is that he escapes ever accepting responsibility for what he does. To his unethical way of thinking, you are the cause of everything he does.

He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chickenshit, slimy little bastard with a bright future in politics.

Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. He often had to keep her in her place.

was crooked as a sidewinder rattlesnake. "So what

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

People who were coddled often are needy or manipulative or become highly emotional when they're expected to do something they don't want to do.

when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, "I never did that," and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie.

Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy. I first learned this when

No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.

a masterly performance. Fulsome and vapid, laden with insincere warmth and hidden barbs, his introductory speech had nevertheless left no legitimate grounds for complaint.

They're going to come in here and blow smoke up your ass,' the coach was saying. 'They're going to give you blow jobs , tell you how great you are, they're going to pile it on thick…

Murdoch is a brilliant and manipulative bastard; Evans is a brilliant and easily manipulated man of taste and honor.

was shady, shoot-from-the-hip, heedless or even unaware of the rules, deceptive, and in it for himself.

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Fursey was now eating—and drinking, always drinking—at Mulstan's expense, not her uncle's. The gift of kings, her mother said: to make others pay.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

he could command an audience, set his box upright on its pole, opened its case, and began to play, bidding me dance to the music. The puppets never tired, of course; and I suppose he thought I was like them.