Manipulation Quotes

“The day could not come soon enough when these mini-Nazis would be disbanded. When ordinary citizens would begin trusting their own instincts again, instead of blindly following anyone in a uniform telling them what to do.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

“i don't wanna be with anybody
who weaponizes my vulnerability
saves it in a wooden box
loads it in a shotgun
when I least expect it”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“Narcissists are blamers, they are not capable of taking responsibility. At first you
know it is not your fault, over time you get exhausted from trying to explain your
innocence and you surrender to the lies, just to keep the peace.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“Facts didn't matter to people if they were smiling.”
― Nick Oliveri, Monsters in My Mind

“Everyone manipulates everyone.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I could drown in a sea of applause. But without you, it's still just be drowning.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“People who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't. nothing will work out the way they want.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Arise black vengeance, from thy hollow hell!”
― William Shakespeare

“Children who experience narcissistic parents’ rage and disapproval hold that
feeling of 'not good enough’ which makes them vulnerable to repeating abuse
patterns.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“People pleasing is really fearing people’s reactions,
rejection or abandonment.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“Narcissists are consistently inconsistent this keeps the victim living in cognitive
dissonance”
― Tracy A. Malone

“I kept sniffing her, and I stroked her neck—like an artist would with an empty canvas and a fine brush.”
― Nick Oliveri, Monsters in My Mind

“Any narrative that we write is a narrative that we will eventually need to be saved from, with the exception of this one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t think that mankind has ever written a narrative that he didn’t need to be saved from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We need to get over the fact that we don’t have the power to create ‘truth.’ However, we do have the power to decide how we’re going to respond to it. And we’d be wise not to get over that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A manipulator puts his hand on your shoulder to sit on your neck.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“It was then that he knew their wills were removed and replaced with his.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Honesty means willfully exchanging my precious agendas for the very truth that those agendas were designed to destroy. And sadly, few of us choose to be that brave.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some didn’t trust the truthiness ratings and inevitably claimed it was all just a way of suppressing inconvenient information. Lydia sometimes worries it’s naive of her to set so much store by the TRs, and yeah they probably are manipulating her to some extent, but she needs some way to make the whirlwind of crap manageable. The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It’s exhausting.”
― Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

“Isabel was an expert at nudging someone off the ledge. It was simply a matter of walking them to a cliff and making them look down. Seeing how hard and fast the drop was. Pointing out the rocks below where their body would land. And having them realize, with a complete and total belief, that you would push them.”
― E.A. Aymar, No Home for Killers

“Golddigger' usually refers to a lousy opportunist who manipulates others for selfish interest. However, when digging for gold, you'll realize that there's no lousy manipulation in digging. Gold is not found on the surface. It's buried d-e-e-p down. You gat to dig the digging.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“Welfare programmes as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anaesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems. They splinter the oppressed into groups of individuals hoping to get a few more benefits for themselves.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“In elections, where there is delay, there is a magic.”
― Olawale Daniel

“In elections, where there is delay, there is magic.”
― Olawale Daniel

“In elections, where there is delay, there is a magic being worked on behind the scenes.”
― Olawale Daniel

“In narcissistic abuse recovery you will raise your awareness of bad behavior. You
will see people’s actions through a lens of protection and no longer tolerate
drama and lower vibrational energy vampires.
Of course knowing red flags is important but tapping into and listening to how
someone makes you feel, is the key to happiness.
A drama free zone must be the protection you deploy. If someone causes you to
run to others to try to understand their behaviors, this relationship is not healthy
for you. We need no labels, we need no proof they are a narcissist, you need to
listen to your gut, and you need courage to walk away.
No drama equals peace. Drama equals confusion, sadness, and fear.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“The silent treatment is a deafening and cruel abuse tactic”
― Tracy A. Malone

“Narcissistic Abuse it's always your fault. Victims internalize "I am never good
enough.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“Narcissists reward loyalty, on their side, oh golden one.... You think you are safe.
The truth is they will quickly discard your ass and flip your golden role to
scapegoat. This is the illusion of loyalty.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“One day you may get angry at yourself. Angry for staying, angry for allowing bad
behavior without a stronger fight, and angry for not knowing exactly what this
was. Getting angry at yourself is a stage you must go through as you look for
answers. Anger propels change, without anger victims stay or allow them back.
Your goal should be to move through the anger and not stay in anger too long.”
― Tracy A. Malone