451 Quotes About Manipulation

What we found out by listening to the abusers was that these abusers began the abuse on the day they first met the woman.

These tactics are initiated if the abuser wants to explore the possibility of a lasting relationship and if he feels that the particular woman would be susceptible to such tactics.

A woman with a newborn baby is too starry-eyed to see a wealthy man's cannon fodder or a cheap source of slave labor.

Everything in the end is matter of strings aka manipulation.

Life is a constant daily manipulation.

Manipulation is not a bad word. It’s not a cynical mind-set. It’s a proactive approach to exploiting opportunities.

Thank you for listening, he wrote.Dear Beautiful, he wrote.I know I can trust you, he wrote.I think of you all day, he wrote.I wonder how you taste, he wrote.Secret-keeper, he wrote.

No, I say. In no moral universe would this not be a crime, I say.I was a child, I tell him.Shame on you, I say. Shame on you, I say. Shame on you.And he laughs and reaches out for me.“You are cute as pie when you’re angry,” he says.“Come here,” he says.“How old are you again?” he says.“Close your eyes,” he says.

It is very painful to argue with an incredibly ignorant person. Not because they are stupid, but because the stupid are unbelievable arrogant and insulting. Their constant intention to manipulate a conversation in order to nullify their responsibility transforms any conversation into a game of theirs to bring another person down rather than using logic, and much less allow an agreement.