Quotes about Manipulation

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. Votes: 5

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Votes: 5

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. Votes: 4

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. Votes: 4

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. Votes: 4

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. Votes: 4

Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination. Votes: 4

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage. Votes: 3

Of all challenges, convincing dumb ones is the most difficult. Manipulation works better in such cases if your heart allows. Votes: 3

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth. Votes: 3

The world cannot be governed without juggling. Votes: 2

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Votes: 2

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. Votes: 2

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. Votes: 2

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down. Votes: 2

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. Votes: 2

To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. Votes: 2

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization. Votes: 2

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. Votes: 2

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them. Votes: 2

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. Votes: 2

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. Votes: 2

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks. Votes: 2

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. Votes: 2

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. Votes: 2

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are. Votes: 2

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. Votes: 2

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. Votes: 2

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff! Votes: 2

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not. Votes: 2

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent. Votes: 2

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. Votes: 2

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy. Votes: 2

This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. Votes: 2

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved. Votes: 2

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Votes: 2

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. Votes: 2

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. Votes: 2

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do. Votes: 2

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why. Votes: 2

Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation. Votes: 2

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East. Votes: 2

When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon. Votes: 2

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. Votes: 2

Art is manipulation without intervention. Votes: 0

Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation. Votes: 0

Everything about a movie is manipulation. Votes: 0

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence. Votes: 0

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination. Votes: 0

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. Votes: 0

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation. Votes: 0

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. Votes: 0

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched. Votes: 0

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited. Votes: 0

Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position! Votes: 0

Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close. Votes: 0

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. Votes: 0

Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation. Votes: 0

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation. Votes: 0

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. Votes: 0

You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation. Votes: 0

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. Votes: 0

do not let others divided your truth by manipulation of their false Votes: 0

Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty. Votes: 0

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation. Votes: 0

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. Votes: 0

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation. Votes: 0

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail. Votes: 0

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing. Votes: 0

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. Votes: 0

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media. Votes: 0

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. Votes: 0

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? Votes: 0

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document. Votes: 0

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation. Votes: 0

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! Votes: 0

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up. Votes: 0

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. Votes: 0

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. Votes: 0

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot. Votes: 0

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform. Votes: 0

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation Votes: 0

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation". Votes: 0

In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Votes: 0

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. Votes: 0

Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent. Votes: 0

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love. Votes: 0

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER. Votes: 0

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. Votes: 0

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone! Votes: 0

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. Votes: 0

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. Votes: 0

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy. Votes: 0

To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation. Votes: 0

Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book Votes: 0

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture. Votes: 0

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. Votes: 0

The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation. Votes: 0

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. Votes: 0

Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. Votes: 0

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion. Votes: 0

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. Votes: 0

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. Votes: 0

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation. Votes: 0

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures. Votes: 0

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships. Votes: 0

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape. Votes: 0

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world. Votes: 0

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. Votes: 0

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation. Votes: 0

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. Votes: 0

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts. Votes: 0

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print. Votes: 0

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. Votes: 0

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done. Votes: 0

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. Votes: 0

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director. Votes: 0

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media. Votes: 0

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. Votes: 0

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. Votes: 0

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed. Votes: 0

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment. Votes: 0

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble. Votes: 0

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds. Votes: 0

Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. Votes: 0

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. Votes: 0

The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid. Votes: 0

Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography. Votes: 0

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation. Votes: 0

The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group. Votes: 0

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty Votes: 0

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research. Votes: 0

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation. Votes: 0

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation. Votes: 0

Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds. Votes: 0

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy. Votes: 0

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language is forming out assholes. Votes: 0

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind. Votes: 0

Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation. Votes: 0

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments. Votes: 0

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail. Votes: 0

Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France. Votes: 0

For all Wichtig spoke of trust, he trusted no one. For all he spoke of wisdom, he learned nothing. Every word he uttered was done so with an eye toward manipulation. Votes: 0

I'd heard theories. Destruction of forests had altered pressure zones. Global warming made for stronger storms. Chemtrails indicated government manipulation of the weather. God punished the family and neighbors of idolaters. Votes: 0

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions. Votes: 0

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything. Votes: 0

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial. Votes: 0

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation. Votes: 0

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce. Votes: 0

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media. Votes: 0

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions. Votes: 0

Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution. Votes: 0

The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored. Votes: 0

We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines. Votes: 0

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on. Votes: 0

Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you. Votes: 0

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment. Votes: 0

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language. Votes: 0

As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships. Votes: 0

The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis. Votes: 0

And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property. Votes: 0

The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness. Votes: 0

Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time. Votes: 0

They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter's constant debasement. Votes: 0

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion." Votes: 0

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems. Votes: 0