Manipulator Quotes:

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

- Owsley Stanley

source: Source: medium.com

topic: Thinking, People, Manipulator

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

- Martin Amis

source: Martin Amis (1986). “The moronic inferno: and other visits to America”, Jonathan Cape

topic: Reputation, True Man, Manipulator

The Chinese are the greatest that ever came about, they are the greatest currency manipulators ever.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: time.com

topic: Chinese, Currency, Manipulator

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

- Howard Whitley Eves

topic: Feelings, Statistics, Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Manipulator

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

- Wyndham Lewis

topic: Purpose, Use, Principles, Manipulator, Immaculate

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

- Meg Greenfield

topic: Thinking, People, Dangerous, Manipulator

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

- Lewis B. Smedes

topic: Forgiveness, People, Risk, Insufferable, Manipulator

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

source: "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

topic: Blood, Hands, Reform, Manipulator, Deceiver

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

- Robert D. Hare

source: Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press

topic: Opportunity, Views, Psychology, Social Interaction, Interacting With Others

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

- Wayne Dyer

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 07, 2011

topic: Emotional, Resentment, Remember, Manipulator, Soreness

There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.

- Ted Haggard

topic: Teacher, Selfish, Communication, Manipulator

If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.

- Harriet B. Braiker

topic: Simple, Games, Play, Manipulator, Dealer

If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Real, Energy, Want, Manipulator

By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today.

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: Political, Technique, World, Manipulator

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

topic: Strong, Lying, People, Manipulator, Never Assume

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

- Frances McDormand

topic: Heaven, Directors, Needs, Manipulator

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Moving, People, Opinion, Manipulator

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Coward, Used, Fascists, Islamophobia, Manipulator

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

- Edward Bernays

source: "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p.71), 1928.

topic: Knowing, Mind, Groups, Mind Control, Manipulator

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

source: Source: www.dailykos.com

topic: Play, People, Enemy, Manipulator, Drive Thru

Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.

- R. S. Thomas

topic: Two, Giving, Imagination, Unifying, Manipulator

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

topic: Mind, United States, Canada, Manipulator

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

- Richard Dawkins

source: "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

topic: Running, Winning, Long, Manipulator, Physical Force

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

- Michael Langford

source: Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

topic: Photography, Powerful, Hands, Manipulator

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

source: Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.88, Penguin

topic: Art, Real, Lying, Manipulator

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

- Joey Skaggs

topic: Issues, Attention, Passionate, Manipulator

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Humility, Acceptance, Sacrifice, Manipulator

He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Long, Blame, Enough, Manipulator, Don't Blame Me

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

- Don Aitkin

topic: Cynical, Democracy, Election, Manipulator

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

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Energy, Coyotes, Rabbits, Manipulator

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

topic: Dream, Morning, Thinking, Manipulator, Negative Energy

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

source: László Moholy-Nagy, Andreas Haus (1980). “Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms”, Pantheon

topic: Photography, Light, Manipulation, Manipulator

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

source: Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

topic: Running, Reality, Trying, Controllers, Manipulator

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

- J.R. Ward

topic: Thinking, Outcomes, Comedy, Manipulator

Things change. There has to be flexibility. Let me give you an example. President Xi, we have a, like, a really great relationship. For me to call him a currency manipulator and then say, “By the way, I'd like you to solve the North Korean problem,” doesn't work. So you have to have a certain flexibility, Number One. Number Two, from the time I took office till now, you know, it's a very exact thing. It's not like generalities.

- Donald Trump

source: "The 100 Days: Who Can Stop an Unfit President*?" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2017.

topic: Giving, Office, President, Manipulator

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

- Wilbur Smith

topic: Want, Wells, Storyteller, Manipulator

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

- Matthew McConaughey

topic: People, Bachelors, Wanted, Manipulator

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

- Audrey Tautou

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Manipulator, Real Women

Take a look at the way that Trump has described some of the foreign countries that we deal with - some that are allies and some that are not. China is one example. He said they were currency manipulators, but after he sat down with President Xi and had a piece of chocolate cake, he then said they were no longer currency manipulators.

- Maxine Waters

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Country, Chocolate, President, Manipulator

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

topic: Jobs, Political, Different, Recluse, Manipulator

My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.

- Chaim Potok

topic: Christian, Self, Years, Manipulator

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Emotional, Years, Feelings, Manipulator

In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.

- Konstantin Pobedonostsev

topic: Spring, Military, Real, Manipulator, Democratic Elections

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

topic: Kings, Men, Causes, Manipulator, Clutch

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

topic: Heart, Men, Rocks, Manipulator, Dilettantes