Manipulation Quotes · Page 17

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

— Marshall McLuhan

“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

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

— Edward Snowden

“You don't have to die to self and acknowledge Jesus as Lord of your life when you regard Him simply a desperate…

— Criss Jami

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This…

— Edward Bernays

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free…

— Heather Brooke

We don't want A.I. to engage in cyberbullying, stock manipulation, or terrorist threats; we don't want the F.B.I. to release A.I. systems…

— Oren Etzioni

This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if…

— Scott Lively

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation…

— Henry Mintzberg

The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.…

— Ivan Illich

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going…

— Martha Stout

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In…

— James Surowiecki

Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the…

— Jurgen Habermas

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the…

— Bryant H. McGill

Walesa was a national hero, a true icon. The vast majority of Poles didn't believe a word the authorities said. They took…

— Slawomir Cenckiewicz

Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These…

— Dan Brown

I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to…

— Peter Greenaway

“Liar! I know that you humans build your life in lies. It starts with your mortal lords and their fabricated gods. They…

— H.S. Crow

Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the…

— James Q. Wilson

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a…

— Joel Sternfeld

Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…

— Greil Marcus

“Manipulation can give you anything in life you want, if you can afford it.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game.

— Terence Tao

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,…

— Charles Babbage