451 Quotes About Manipulation

If someone can change your mind, he has won you over without raising his hand against you. This is the future of warfare.

That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.

Our capacity as human beings for imagination and storytelling makes us exquisitely vulnerable to exploitation by those who understand the properties of ideological power.

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.