Manipulation Quotes

Manipulation Quote of the day

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

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.

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

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

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.

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

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

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.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

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.

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.

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

Love without sacrifice is like theft

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

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

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.

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

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

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

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

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

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

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.

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.

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

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

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

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

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

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

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

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

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.