{"quotes":[{"text":"Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","control","emotion","emotional","emotions","habit","habits","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","manipulate","manipulation","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":7992,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["better-life","common","encourage","food-for-thought","goal","goal-setting","inspiration","inspire","inspired","leader","leaders","leadership","manipulation","motivate","motivated","motivation","personal-development","productive","productivity","reward"],"id":10546,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["fantasy","listening","manipulation"],"id":10898,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal power of Nietzschean entities, striving only for the narcissistic vindication of their ego and will. The enlightened mind knows that all is challengeable, ergo questions all and thus, learns and grows; progression. The weak and narrow mind makes its beliefs sacrosanct; fearful of challenge, their creed becomes unalterable, defended with violence. Political extremists, much like religious zealots, are the latter. They destroy what they cannot convert. They annihilate those they cannot control, or force to conform. They have found no peace in life, no love, and so promote war and division, as emotional cripples – inflicting their own pain and misery and malignant stupidity on the world. Their language binds people together, but only by stirring the darkest excesses of the soul; language of hate, and intolerance, fear and conspiracy, and the need for vengeance. In war-scarred Europe, these cripples direct mass-psychology, and would make the world in their own likeness; mutilated by violence and tribalism and hate.","author":"Daniel S. Fletcher","tags":["advancement","extremism","jackboot","jackboot-britain","lies","manipulation","manipulation-of-facts","political-extremism","political-language","progression","propaganda","sacrosanct","social-indoctrination","terrorism","tribalism","zealotry","zealots"],"id":17135,"author_id":"Daniel+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.","author":"David Icke","tags":["illuminati","manipulation","secrets"],"id":18339,"author_id":"David+Icke"},{"text":"The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["actions","collide","collision","contradict","contradictory","dishonest","distort","distortion","ethical","fact","fiction","honest","honesty","integrity","lies","manipulate","manipulation","moral","truth","words"],"id":22695,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Don’t become manipulated by the illusion of who you think you are, or who you think you should be.","author":"Steven Redhead","tags":["illusion","manipulation","thinking"],"id":24441,"author_id":"Steven+Redhead"},{"text":"There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason than they feel the need to have leverage. I find this to be a certain type of sickness of the mind. You could argue that they wish you no harm, however, the desire to simply have leverage over another— whether this is mental, emotional or physical— is, I think, a sickness of the mind. I can honestly say right now that I, 100%, have no manipulative intentions to gain leverage over any other person that I know.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["a-sickness-of-the-human-mind","guidance-in-life","leverage-over-other-people","life-is-not-a-game","manipulation","manipulative-people","sick-techniques","sickness-of-the-mind","warnings","wisdom"],"id":35369,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ethics","god","god-s-will","manipulation","morals","obedience","selfishness","values"],"id":36388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result of decree, force or manipulation. Jesus always kept his strength to make loving choices. He calls us to make loving choices necessary to be the servant of all.' 'Humility permits me to own my feelings – and to admit them. Now I'm free to say, ‘I'm angry’. I'm free to admit what I am reacting to. I am free to ask if anger is what the person wanted to produce in me, and to ask for help in changing if my reaction is inappropriate.","author":"Gayle D. Erwin","tags":["humility","manipulation","servanthood"],"id":38061,"author_id":"Gayle+D.+Erwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":193,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}