Manipulation Quotes

• The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Engineering
  • Deception
  • 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.

  

  David Whyte
  • Good
  • Why
  • Poetry

• 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
  • War
  • Winning
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Activity
  • France
  • Chemists

• 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
  • Writing
  • Real
  • History

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

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Writing
  • Manipulation

• Hatred does not exist as a basic psychological structure. It is, however, the result of psychological manipulation of fear; and fear is not a basic psychological structure.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Fear
  • Manipulation

• I think it is harder to scare young people because there is an ironic hipster stance that you have to take in relation to pop culture. You know you're being manipulated. People are so aware of the manipulation. We're all aware that movies toy with us and pull our strings. There was a time when people just didn't acknowledge that as much.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • People
  • Time
  • Culture

• The global 'currency wars' are likely here to stay due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation. But these artificial mechanisms lack tangible or lasting value.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Value
  • Manipulation

• 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
  • Job
  • Manipulation

• For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Painting
  • Cinema
  • Difficulty

• All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I think that's because our current religion is capitalism. Capitalism has the functions of patronage, commissions, control of content, bestowing of space, elevation of certain artists over others based on how much they pander to people in power, the determination of value of the work, all of it. Capitalism commissions artwork now, the market.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• ...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.

  

  Andy Grundberg
  • World
  • Important
  • Worry

• 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.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Empathy
  • Sympathy
  • Manipulation

• According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation of nature came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely instrumental faculty.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Goals
  • Source
  • Manipulation

• The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.

  

  Edmundo Desnoes
  • Danger
  • Image
  • Manifests

• If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Change
  • Computer
  • Photograph

• 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
  • Believe
  • Negative
  • Manipulation

• The desire that drives an artist to graphic work is perhaps partly the effort to capture the unique and indefinite nature of a drawing in a fixed and durable form. Another aspect of it is that the technical manipulations exercise energies in the artist that he does not use in the far less strenuous crafts of drawing and painting.. .the mysterious attraction that surrounded the invention of printing in the Middle Ages is still felt by anyone who takes up graphics seriously and performs every stage in the process wit hits own hands.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Artist

• You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Sunshine
  • Flowers
  • Faerie

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

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Technology
  • Computer
  • Surrealism

• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Forces

• “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.”

  

  Arne Tiselius
  • World
  • True
  • False

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