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The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.
Tactics are manipulative.
No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.
Humiliation is the sport of the petty
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
When the stakes are high, bow down low.
Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.
The hand that gives, gathers.
Manipulation is the art of making another person's spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!
Of offering more than what I can deliver,
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face:
Four ways in court to win man's grace.
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths.
Know glory but cleave to humiliation.
Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
So ludicrous, in fact, do these ceremonies appear to me, that I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude to lift a handkerchief, or shut a door, when the LADY could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.
What people do at tables." Strong hands held my legs apart. "Eating.
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas.
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.
It was a politician's gesture - a vulgar public gesture by a man who in private, among his own kind, would take wincing pains never to touch anyone.
Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.
Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Sitting makes us think of standing
Our current stance keeps on demanding
We wish to fly without the wings
Puppets move before pulling the strings
In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.
The Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining
Bend when you must. Pull when you must. Both are an offering. When you bend, be at peace; when you pull, do so gently.
diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness.
The insolence of office.
Did you google 'best groveling speeches' while I was passed out?
Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
The position that places you on your knees at my feet, if I so choose to command you there, the one where you realize that no matter the power you wield, I am
and will always be
stronger and in control. Time, Ella, I want time. Aleixandre
The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.
Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
Sometimes compromise is painful.
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.
Gentle flexibility
is the way of the humble master
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.
With an effort, the kind you use when confronting an unpleasant duty,
This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
To sit down when you should have remained on your feet- that's all you need to show you the moral fabric of which we are made.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
A backwards step of self-doubt, a lying promise that you knew would hurt you later, a knowledge that you were going to get hurt and you probably deserved it.
Confront, bend, rise but never abandon...
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
Making love with his ego.
Courage never to submit of yield.
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Admit only your victories until you have hooked their interest, then you draw them closer and admit the sort of failings that reflect well on a fellow, sentimental failings: that was the theory of courtship the young master had formulated...
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Eager to please,
Trying to be what they need
But I'm so very tired
I've stopped trying to find
Any peace in my mind
Because it tangles the wires
It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.
Abdicating-Decision-Making
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary
Take an act of magnanimity that is difficult, quiet, muted, without splendour, where you're slandered, where there's much sacrifice and not a drop of glory.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
We find something of the favour sought in a graceful refusal.
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
There is nothing more deceitful ... than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes and indirect boast.
Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.
Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
Watching you try to be a smooth manipulator is like watching a moose do ballet. What did you do, read Machiavelli for Dummies? Or
Bowed down by greif,
I had resolved
To be moved no more-
But tears, it seems,
Are not like minds.
Moreover a blunt and stolid regard for literal truth indisposes them to make those lavish promises by which the more judicious Circle can in a moment pacify his consort. The result is massacre;
Whispering like it's a secret, only to condemn the one who hears it, with a heavy heart.