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  • When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • 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
  • Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. -- Henry Ford
  • The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. -- John Spencer
  • Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination. -- Paulo Freire
  • 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. -- Philip K. Dick
  • 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
  • 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. -- Joyce Brothers
  • 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. -- Kate Millett
  • Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Of all challenges, convincing dumb ones is the most difficult. Manipulation works better in such cases if your heart allows. -- Ravindra Shukla
  • 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. -- Orson Scott Card
  • The world cannot be governed without juggling. -- John Selden
  • Photography has always been capable of manipulation. -- Joel Sternfeld
  • Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. -- Norman Spinrad
  • Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. -- Aristophanes
  • As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down. -- Edwin Lefevre
  • Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. -- Jasper Johns
  • To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. -- Susan Stewart
  • 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. -- Bruce Kent
  • 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. -- Heather Brooke
  • 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. -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • 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. -- Thornton Wilder
  • 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. -- Dean Koontz
  • 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. -- Virginia Foxx
  • 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. -- David Whyte
  • 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. -- Talcott Parsons
  • 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. -- Katherine Dunn
  • 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. -- Noam Chomsky
  • 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. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • 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! -- Angela Bettis
  • 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. -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • 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. -- John Sexton
  • 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. -- Julian Assange
  • 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. -- Jim Bolger
  • 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. -- Edward Bernays
  • 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. -- Gavin Bryars
  • 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. -- Edward Bernays
  • 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. -- John Perkins
  • 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. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • 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. -- Donald Trump
  • 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. -- Darren Aronofsky
  • 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. -- Cyrus S. Poonawalla
  • 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. -- Jamais Cascio
  • 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. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • 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. -- Steven Spielberg
  • Art is manipulation without intervention. -- Louise Bourgeois
  • Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation. -- Bill Cosby
  • Everything about a movie is manipulation. -- Frederick Wiseman
  • Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence. -- Lawrence M. Schoen
  • Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination. -- Sol Saks
  • Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. -- Neville Brody
  • Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation. -- Howard G. Hendricks
  • Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud
  • The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched. -- Vernor Vinge
  • Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited. -- Ian Wilmut
  • Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. -- Laozi
  • Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation. -- Laozi
  • What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation. -- William Safire
  • Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. -- Martha Rosler
  • You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation. -- Kiersten White
  • Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. -- Ingrid Newkirk
  • do not let others divided your truth by manipulation of their false -- litymunshi.
  • Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty. -- Stefan Molyneux
  • I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation. -- Demetri Martin
  • The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
  • The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation. -- Terence McKenna
  • I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail. -- Riley Keough
  • The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing. -- Hubert M. Blalock
  • Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. -- Allen Ginsberg
  • The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media. -- Michael Hastings
  • Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? -- Eric Maisel
  • Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document. -- Molly Crabapple
  • The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation. -- Wendy Beckett
  • I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! -- Barbara Mertz
  • Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up. -- Jessica Zafra
  • I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. -- Ikue Mori
  • In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. -- Milton Glaser
  • Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot. -- Elizabeth Ferrars
  • What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation -- Linda Simpson
  • I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation". -- Linda Simpson
  • In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. -- Paulo Freire
  • Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent. -- Shahla Khan
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  • Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER. -- Christina Westover
  • Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. -- Alain de Botton
  • When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone! -- Ashish Patel
  • Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. -- Erich Fromm
  • These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. -- Edward Snowden
  • In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy. -- Adele Exarchopoulos
  • To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book -- Alison Miller
  • Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture. -- Herbert Hoover
  • I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. -- Hillary Clinton
  • The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation. -- Bruce McDonald
  • Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
  • Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. -- Asa Don Brown
  • I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. -- Colm Toibin
  • When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures. -- Giorgio Moroder
  • Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. -- Jeff Goodell
  • I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships. -- Jonathan Nolan
  • There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape. -- Edwin Lefevre
  • The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world. -- Erich Fromm
  • Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation. -- Amit Ray
  • Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior. -- Alfie Kohn
  • 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. -- Evan Osnos
  • I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print. -- Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. -- Vernor Vinge
  • When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done. -- John Grierson
  • Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. -- Tiffany Madison
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