Quotes About Manipulators

#1. Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.

Gary Weiss

#2. The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Henri Nouwen

#5. In short, he was one of those early, daring manipulators who later were to seize upon other and even larger phases of American natural development for their own aggrandizement.

Theodore Dreiser

#6. Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

Don Aitkin

#7. 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

Iggy Pop

#8. Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good?

Frederick Lenz

#9. I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

Joey Skaggs

#10. Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

Tom Clancy

#11. Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

George Ayittey

#12. Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Geoff Mulgan

#13. I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They're also great manipulators. I would presume that cult leaders are identical. These sort of individuals are very strong, they have very strong charisma.

Loretta Napoleoni

#14. Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.

Ransom Riggs

#15. There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

Meg Greenfield

#16. People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.

Alex Jones

#17. Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

Tariq Ali

#18. The term faith-based is nothing more than an attempt to slip religion past you when you're not thinking; which is the way religion is always slipped past you. It deprives you of choice; choice being another word the political-speech manipulators find extremely useful.

George Carlin

#19. Jews have always controlled the business ... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada ... is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Henry Ford

#20. Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Dinesh D'Souza

#21. Weltschmerz, basically, is the depression we feel when bamboozlers, fanatics, manipulators, trolls, bigots, demagogues, fear-mongers, liars and prigs threaten to take over the world, and there's nothing, we think, we can do about it.

Em L. Smith

#22. Djinns were liars and manipulators, much like my estranged pseudo husband.

Hailey Edwards

#23. No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.

Margaret Truman Daniel

#24. My reality is at the end of the dream. When I walk down the road of life, searching for the door that will guide me to my reality, I am merely walking to confirm there is nothing there.

Lionel Suggs

#25. Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham

#26. Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

Arthur Ransome

#27. What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

Syama Prasad Mukherjee

#28. I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn't a voracious reader.

James Altucher

#29. I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

Gelsey Kirkland

#30. Reminded herself that this was not a monster. This was Wolf, the man who had held her so tenderly on the train. The man who had given her the ID chip to help her escape.

Marissa Meyer

#31. The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

David Horsey

#32. Heath was me. And I was Heath. It was the way it had always been.

Erin McCarthy

#33. she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice.

Chas Newkey-Burden

#34. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Harper Lee

#35. Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

Howard G. Hendricks

#36. Rx for life: see through the heart and live with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#37. There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.

Gena Showalter

#38. Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Perry Brass