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A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with fear and self-doubt. He has difficulty with the prospect of life without someone else. The devaluing messages of control and manipulation create dependency so those who most need to leave their family of origin are the least equipped to do so." -- Christina Enevoldsen
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
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation. -- Bruce McDonald
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
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. -- Terence McKenna
Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book -- Alison Miller
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. -- Edward Snowden
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. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Adyashanti

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