“The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
To me, manipulation of desperate people is something I've always found relatable and scary. — Ti West Copy Share Image
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“There are men who fall in love with women they mistake for ideas.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy. — Adele Exarchopoulos Copy Share Image
Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something,… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
“As the old saying goes, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” But that depends on what the hand is feeding you… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of… — Victoria Abril Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Pre-poll and exit polls have now become a commercial proposition. No longer are they viewed as means for a debate or means… — N. Bhaskara Rao Copy Share Image
Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight'… — Joel Sternfeld 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
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
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
“The Legend of Robert Halsey This article examines the criminal conviction of Robert Halsey for sexually abusing two young boys on his… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There… — Tim Clinton Copy Share Image
“The thing about lying is it’s like creating your own world, controlling your own little world. A tiny innocent, or as some… — Garry Crystal Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Same way I get anybody to do anything: I find what he's emotionally invested in and I exploit it. — Ben Copy Share Image
“Be cool, dear student. The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. — Laozi Copy Share Image