Manipulation Quotes

“It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is manipulation without intervention.

— Louise Bourgeois

This world is too manipulative

— Brad D'Roza

“Be aware of mental manipulation that is used by others.”

— Steven Redhead

“You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.”

— Orson Scott Card

Relationships are more than calculations...

— Milana May

“The prejudiced are easily manipulated.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Fashion is one of the greatest forms of manipulation.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

— Laozi

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

— William Safire

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

— Ikue Mori

In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

— Vladimir Lenin

“The first rule of persuasion…” “Don’t you mean manipulation?” “You”

— Iris Johansen

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

— Michael Hastings

“Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.”

— Ivanka Trump

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

— Edward Bernays

“That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington’s been doing it like that for decades.”

— Jim Butcher

“My insecurities demand that I put you in a box that you were not created for so that I might live the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's…

— Hope Jahren

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes…

— Katherine Dunn

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force…

— Harold Pinter

“Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if the conspiracy theory is…

— Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior

“The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in…

— Michael Wyndham Thomas

“She’s fulfilled her obligation, assuaged her conscience by finding me in the hallway and giving me the chance to freak out, and…

— Matthew Quick

All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I…

— Chitra Ganesh

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through…

— Barbara Marciniak

The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,…

— Charles Hugh Smith

As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion…

— Emma Watson

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action…

— Gavin Bryars

There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example,…

— Emily Thornberry

The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery…

— Edward Bernays

The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the…

— Edward Bernays

Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of…

— Thane Rosenbaum

If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according…

— Edward Bernays

“In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face,…

— George Saunders

“It seems that many of us have the goal of making other people conform to our desires and expectations, whether or not…

— Tom Walsh

The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of…

— Teresa Stover

It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was…

— Simon Blackburn

“The art of government lies in finding ways to take advantage of such sentiments, not wasting one’s energy in futile efforts to…

— Pareto Vilfredo