41 Quotes About Manipulators

Manipulators may use fear and anger to shoot blame at another person. This type of behavior can be dangerous for any individual to experience. Here are some shocking quotes about manipulators that will keep you on guard.

“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.”

“Because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.”

“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 a — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.”

“I don’t need a director who’s ‘good with actors.’…A master manipulator is heaven.”

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

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

“I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I’m a manipulator as well.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I’ve been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That’s why you think you love me. Because I’ve broken you down and built you back up to believe it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.”

“There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and without these spinning wheels, they simply do not know how to function.”

“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.”

“There’s nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.”

“Things change. There has to be flexibility. Let me give you an example. President Xi, we have a, like, a really great relationship.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

There are many warning signs to keep in mind when it comes to identifying a manipulator.