Quotes About Emotional Manipulation

#1. Many profit-driven corporate strategies are based on fashion, planned obsolescence, unneeded upgrades, and masterful emotional manipulation --marketing--causing people to continuously replace goods which are still in good working order.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#2. I'm sorry we mistook emotional manipulation for love.

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#3. The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Kate Millett

#4. If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.

Krishna Das

#5. I don't know any woman who hasn't experienced some level of sexual predation, from catcalls, to unwanted advances at bars, to emotional manipulation, to violent rape. I certainly have - even "unrapeable" me. All women do need to worry about rape.

Lindy West

#6. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

Diane Setterfield

#7. Andrew was right. We probably wouldn't have any problems if I didn't go out of my way to create them.

Alicia Thompson

#8. In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.

Ian Stevenson

#9. Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

Billy Carter

#10. Your name is written on my heart, Lily

Nalini Singh

#11. It's really nice to meet you, sir. You drive like a wild maniac, and I respect that.

Daniel Jose Older

#12. Usually the hard stuff you're forced to do makes you learn a lot.

Lauren Barnholdt

#13. Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

John Irving

#14. Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing.

Deepak Chopra

#15. After making this long and successful journey, you are not going to let someone bring you down by emotional bullying or manipulation. Give everyone an opportunity to be a friend, but choose only those who create a thriving environment.

Kaylyn Austen

#16. Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

Beverly Engel

#17. I'm a real estate guy.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. Over-the-top dance reality shows are hard for me to watch. The real drama in our world is much more emotional, personal, and extreme. There is manipulation and sneakiness.

Sarah Hay

#19. These moments as beautiful as they are... they're evil, when their gone.

Violet

#20. I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Carla H. Krueger

#21. I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

Tarja Halonen

#23. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.

Heyward Bruce Ewart III

#24. In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

Ramez Naam

#25. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Lily Tomlin

#26. The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.

Richard Mitchell

#27. Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

Matt Kindt