Manipulation Quotes

• Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

  

  Eddie Adams
  • Weapon
  • Manipulation
  • Photographs

• The manipulation of what's actually portrayed in the media, through the legal system, is pretty shocking, actually. You can see how someone you would never know can make a public figure look like a bad guy or a good guy just from the little information they let you know. My advice is to research everything. Don't just hide behind your Facebook posts. Research everything.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Guy
  • Advice
  • Face

• Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • World
  • Today
  • Social

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

  

  Riley Keough
  • Dog
  • Lying
  • Manipulation

• Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.

  

  Andreas Moritz
  • Control
  • Problems
  • Manipulation

• The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Balance

• 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
  • Television
  • Drug
  • Excellence

• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Maturity
  • Psychedelic

• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Moral
  • Perspective
  • Grief

• 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.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Manipulation
  • Treatment
  • Emotional Abuse

• 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.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Society
  • Government
  • Students

• Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Fate
  • Art Is
  • Directing

• Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Future
  • Manipulation
  • Supporter

• The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Political
  • Manipulation

• The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

  

  Wendy Beckett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Imagination

• Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

  

  Elizabeth Ferrars
  • Facts
  • Manipulation
  • Stubborn

• Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Children
  • Train
  • Learns

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

  

  Stephen Jay Gould
  • Judgment
  • Hopes
  • Manipulation

• Big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Result
  • Forces
  • Impulse

• If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Inspire
  • Manipulation
  • Manipulate

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Manipulation
  • Prey

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

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Joy
  • Media
  • Manipulation

• There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Art
  • Advertising
  • Manipulation

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