Quotes About People Who Manipulate

#1. There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

Erich Fromm

#2. This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

George Takei

#3. A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

Dan Gilroy

#4. Tricking people who want to hurt or manipulate me? Something I'm good at. Getting people to like and trust me? Something I'm bad at.

Benedict Jacka

#5. If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

Pele

#6. Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

David Crystal

#7. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

Mallory Ortberg

#9. However, when you create a model from proxies, it is far simpler for people to game it. This is because proxies are easier to manipulate than the complicated reality they represent.

Cathy O'Neil

#10. When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

Julie Delpy

#11. What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

Kevin Mitnick

#12. You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

Byron Katie

#13. People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

Paul Watson

#14. Without time management, you lose control of your life and do what other people tell you to do. You lose control and become a puppet that everyone can control and manipulate.

Thomas Miller

#15. It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

John Boorman

#16. I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

Sarah Kane

#17. What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.

Oliver Stone

#18. You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).

T.F. Hodge

#20. If we really knew the God of Jesus, we would stop trying to control and manipulate others "for their own good," knowing full well that this is not how God works among His people. - The Signature of Jesus

Brennan Manning

#21. A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

Sol Stein

#22. People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Bob Goff

#23. Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. "Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people."
--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans

Marilyn Bay Wentz

#24. Honesty is a most dreadful quality - it makes people difficult to manipulate,

Ashwin Sanghi

#25. Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only their prison has more people.

Nigel Brennan

#26. One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the
large scale availability of half truth's and manipulated facts

Oche Otorkpa

#27. Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you're eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it's really helpful.

Nick Youngquest

#28. If Stalin was such a bad guy, why do all these people have to resort to attributing to him almost entirely quotes he didn't make, or manipulate his actual quotes just enough to make them seem evil?

Joseph Stalin

#29. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.

Peter Moon

#30. If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#31. No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.

Penn Jillette

#32. Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.

Dan Lyons

#33. There are people who are so smart they know how to manipulate you.

Veronica Roth

#34. You can't manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.

Trish Mercer

#35. Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

Albert Bandura

#36. If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

James Purefoy

#37. Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

Orson Scott Card

#38. [A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

C. Wright Mills

#39. When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.

Veronica Roth

#40. Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

J.K. Rowling

#41. You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

Will.i.am

#42. Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.

Alexander Lowen

#43. Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

Chevy Chase

#44. We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.

Shakti Gawain

#45. In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

John Ensign

#46. People who underestimated you were easier to manipulate.

Brandon Sanderson

#47. The demagogue does not manipulate the people; instead, the "ruler who behaves like a subject"57 slavishly follows the will of the people and fails to chart a course for the city beyond the narrows of popularity and passion. The demagogue runs democracy into the ground. But

Michael Signer

#48. The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind,

Ingrid Newkirk

#49. If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.

Juan Enriquez

#50. Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?

Anne Lamott

#51. The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain's almond. They kept the people spellbound

Amira Aly

#52. That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.

Margaret Cho

#53. If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

Simon Sinek

#54. I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

Geraldine Page

#55. I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

Lauryn Hill

#56. I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Mos Def

#57. A true leader is a person whose influence inspires people to do what is expected of them to do. You cease to be a leader when you manipulate with your egos instead of convincing by your inspirations.

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Groucho Marx

#59. People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

Dave Eggers

#60. Truth is very simple in nature, people just manipulate to make it fancy and complex...

Ankit Rawat

#61. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most faithfully obedient, when instead of trying to manipulate people into faith, we simply live in that freedom and let the Spirit do the work of transformation.

Mark Galli

#62. And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?

Orson Scott Card

#63. Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

#64. Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people
they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Paulo Freire