Manipulation Quotes

“Taking something at face value is assuming that the ‘face’ is not a mask.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we are forced to read between the lines, whatever it is that we end up reading needs to be used to rewrite the lines.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“dreams. By understanding the various dimensions of power and embracing its potential, you can make it the driving force behind your ambitions. Harness the magnetic nature of power, feed your ambition, and develop your skills in manipulation to shape the life you desire. Always remember, however, that power comes at a price – be prepared to face the consequences of your actions as you ascend to the throne of your dreams.”
― Kevin L. Michel, Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual

“By understanding the various dimensions of power and embracing its potential, you can make it the driving force behind your ambitions. Harness the magnetic nature of power, feed your ambition, and develop your skills in manipulation to shape the life you desire. Always remember, however, that power comes at a price – be prepared to face the consequences of your actions as you ascend to the throne of your dreams.”
― Kevin L. Michel, Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual

“The Machiavellian dreamer understands that the pursuit of power is akin to a game of chess, and it is through the mastery of strategy that one can achieve victory.”
― Kevin L. Michel, Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual

“Manipulation is not a bad thing,
It’s just depends on who it’s uses,
The Devil or, the Angel?”
― Somnath Bhattacharjee, The Devil’s Love Story: The Devil's Revenge

“The real hero is the one who stands against the fabricated hero.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is the coward who must legitimize their greed by making it appear heroic.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is nothing heroic in being wounded in the battles of a cause that has been crafted from the tenets of our own greed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To attempt to sell what you don’t have highlights what you are not and foretells what you will never be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To dress up our failures as successes is to forever forfeit the possibility of success, other than how to effectively dress-up what we should be committed to dressing-down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Brainwashed people brainwash people.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“The fool believes that pretending can be done with such flair and perceived genius that it can alter the reality of that which it is attempting to avoid in the pretending.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In an adult addict's life, a mother can only experience the brief passing scent of her sweet child as they manipulate all who love them for their addiction.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“When you quickly recognize manipulation in others, take a moment to reflect on how familiar you are with the art of manipulation.”
― Cristina Gherghel

“No cause is ever so great that we must lie to insure its survival.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The need to sort out the truth evidences the existence of someone who would prefer that you didn’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sorting out the truth is less about figuring out the truth and more about determining why the truth was so threatening that someone felt it necessary to lie about it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lies would not exist except for the fact that the truth does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lies are constructed of compromise. Therefore, they are pliable enough to present themselves as the truth that they are lying about.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lie will never be the truth that we are feverishly attempting to make it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A thousand lies do not have the force to produce one truth, other than the truth that they are lies.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What the lie has neglected to tell us is that we have long been engulfed in that which the lie has claimed we can circumvent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The weight of the lie will never lighten the load of the circumstance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When it comes to the holes that we’re in, lies promise ladders but deliver shovels.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People who adamantly insist that 1+1=3 are deathly allergic to calculators.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your lies won’t die with you. That assumes that they were real enough to have lived in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The real lie is that the lie worked.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lie is like a tissue paper umbrella. It promises what it can’t do.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lie is a forgery of a truth that is too big to embrace because of a prejudice that we’re too afraid to confront.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough