Manipulation Quotations

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.

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

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

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.

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

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.

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.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.

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.

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

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.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

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 difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

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

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

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

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

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.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

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

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

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.

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

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

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."

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.

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

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

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

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

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

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

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

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.

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

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.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

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

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

Art is manipulation without intervention.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

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

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

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.

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

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

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

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

Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.

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.

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.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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