Manipulation Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.
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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
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I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.
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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.
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You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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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.
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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.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.
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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
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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
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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.
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There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.
