#nip

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave. ↗

— Criss Jami

#deceit #defamation #denial #enemy #feelings

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#complicity #director #even #help #manipulation

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#imaginations #manipulative #people #spark #trying

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#angry #debate #democrats #even #even worse

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. ↗

— Raymond Aron

#foreknowledge #future #makes #manipulate #possible

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#control #create #fear #i #i do

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#people #price #start #success #think

She said, "Look down at your chest." I held the cell phone to my ear as I bend my head. Two red dots, quivering slightly, danced right over my heart. "You are one second away from death," said the caller. ↗

— Jonathan Maberry

#death

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#god #lie #no reason #omnipotent #only