#nip

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #desires #fights #literature

Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#distrustful #everdeen #katniss #manipulative #violent

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares. ↗

— Max Brooks

#manipulation #pharmaceutical-industry #scares #death

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. ↗

— Gayle D. Erwin

#manipulation #servanthood #anger

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. ↗

— Morley Safer

#culture #manipulative #momentary #popular #popular culture

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. ↗

— Edward Bernays

#democratic #democratic society #element #habits #important

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. ↗

— John Boorman

#attuned #audience #aware #being #clear

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#god #hebrew #nowhere #omnipotent #say

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. ↗

— John Coleman

#amazed #appalled #create #data #environmental