A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul. — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present… — Bruce Kent Copy Share Image
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take… — Heyward Ewart Copy Share Image
“I think it’s pretty common to hold onto people, to bribe them with things, say, a body, in the hopes of keeping… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
In the Sabs we had to remain in this depressing, unreal world. I didn't like all the devilish boohoo that went with… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The idea of someone who can play with their emotions, who can 'mystically' get them to do certain things, makes them uncomfortable.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one's illness or suffering,for example,was-and remains-extremely effective for people who find they cannot be… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did… — Angus King Copy Share Image
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and… — George Takei Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Raining Gold' is about feeling trapped in a broken dynamic. Feeling so worn out and turned upside down from manipulation can make… — Aimee Osbourne Copy Share Image
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
