Manipulate Quotes

286 quotes by 259 authors

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for… — Virginia C. Andrews
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage… — Bertolt Brecht
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were… — Madeleine L'Engle
To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which… — Alfred de Vigny
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at… — Steve Toltz
Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited.… — Barry Goldwater
Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship .… — William P. Young
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken. — Muriel Barbery
You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a… — Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel… — Craig Thompson
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision… — Don DeLillo
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to… — Anne Lamott
And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people?… — Orson Scott Card
God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite… — Matthew Kelly
Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls? — Simone Elkeles
Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy. — Charlie Huston

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