Manipulation Quotes

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

Milton Glaser
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

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

Riley Keough
- Dog
- Lying
- Manipulation
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
Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.

Andreas Moritz
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
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