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Quotes About Manipulative

Paralyse and ultimately kill.
~ Ira Levin
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
~ Morley Safer
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
~ Voltaire
What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!
~ Adolf Hitler
With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.
~ Neal Shusterman
Cunning people find other people to drown for them.
~ Neal Shusterman
stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you.
~ Chinua Achebe
I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
~ Drake
A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.
~ Timothy Zahn
Sociopaths have no conscience. Narcissists have no empathy. Neither one thinks other people are real. Narcissists think other people are just ego food, tools or extensions of themselves.
~ Koren Zailckas
The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune.
~ George R.R. Martin
Kad vidiš ovako ?oveka suviše sigurna u sebe i ono što kaže, hitra i slatka na re?i, koji ti nudi što mu ne tražiš, odobrava što kažeš, a ostaje pri onom što je namislio, znaj da je kurva i bezdušnik, i kloni ga se koliko možeš.
~ Ivo Andri?
He had a conscience as elastic as any politician could wish for.
~ J. Frank Dobie
This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form.
~ Tana French
I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
~ Adolf Hitler
Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.
~ Jacques Ellul
Os homens são tão simplórios e obedientes às necessidades imediatas que aquele que engana sempre encontrará quem se deixe enganar.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Blythe was Viktor's in. He'd arranged a casual meeting and swept her off her feet. He was good with women. He knew exactly how to read them and what they wanted and needed. He was good at providing.
~ Christine Feehan
Although narcissists can appear charismatic, that charm is always and only exercised in the service of their own greater glory. They disregard the feelings and the interests of others and are often skilled at manipulating them into providing what the narcissist wants right here, right now. From Reading Crimes by DR TONY HILL
~ Val McDermid
A farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only the things that must be done now and things that can be done later. The threat the farm has got on you, the one that keeps you running from can until can't, is this: do it now, or some living thing will wilt or suffer or die. Its blackmail, really.
~ Kristin Kimball
Earth has been controlled by the man who owns the planet's fuel—Delbert John Rockecenter. His power is such that he can determine the political future of a country simply by making a telephone call to one of his minions.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
~ Lady Gaga
As Kit's father used to say about various criminals, Julian was the kind of person who could descend into Hell and come out with the devil himself owing him a favor.
~ Cassandra Clare
Psychopaths lack empathy, have a superficial charm and a grandiose sense of self-worth, and are pathological liars. As well, they are cunning and manipulative, lack remorse, are emotionally shallow, refuse to accept responsibility for their actions, and indulge in a parasitic lifestyle.
~ Catherine Gildiner