Preying on Weakness Quotes

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

The consultant is selling something to the candidate. The confidence game is that the candidate is always a little afraid. They’re always a little scared they can lose, and that’s what the consultant exploits. In the words of a consultant, ”There’s nothing better than a scared, rich candidate.”

That, as a man may take the advantage of his own skill or ability, so he may of another's ignorance or necessity

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

People really feed on someone else's tragedies or problems.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.