451 Quotes About Manipulation

Trying to control what others think about you has to be one of the exhausting task yet some people are master in it.

Are you surprised that your desires can be turned to evil uses?" He asked. "You shouldn't be. I know mine can. Such might be said of anyone. It doesn't make you any less trustworthy or true, nor does it lower my estimation of you. Do not be deceived into thinking that you would have acted in the manner that you did without the inducements of the Dylcaer; you would not have.

Believe them and they'll you all sorts of things.

She did not use those gray eyes on me. If she had, I would have refused her. She waited only. It was true that [waiting] looked well on her. She seemed to fit into the air like a jewel in its crown.

Let’s add up what we know. He gravitated toward all things occult. He wanted to be a member of a tight clan with strict rules and secret codes. He craved highly organized social structures, with leaders and followers clearly distinguished.  A group with little appeal to the masses. A group with few members. We know that these Nordic runes fascinated him. And apparently he held that fascination for a long time, given that he added the ‘Hagalaz’ to the message intended for Marshal Pack.

Long ago, when she was a girl in the group home, Eva discovered that big feelings made most people uncomfortable, and she learned how to use anger or sadness to turn up the pressure, to maneuver people into a position where their only desire was to make the emotion go away. To stop the tears. To fix the fear. To placate the anger.

If you want people respect you, you must be consummated about how to demonstrate yourself. All the skills are one or another way of befooling.

If it is traumatising to follow the same lecture every week, then what makes it desirable to sit in the same place daily?

The great shadow before me may have had an animal body, but he had the mind of a man at least, and men could be reasoned with, pleased, manipulated.