Manipulation Quotes

248 quotes by 212 authors

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of… — Douglas Rushkoff
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them. — Douglas Rushkoff
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. — Colm Toibin
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never… — Flannery O'Connor
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. — Cornel West
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is… — Richard Bach
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own… — Hakim Bey
The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy… — Tom Robbins
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic… — Herbert Marcuse
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but… — Alan Moore
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because… — Theodore Kaczynski
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our… — Kurt Vonnegut
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion,… — Terence McKenna
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! — Barbara Mertz
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles… — Dan Brown
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. — Ray Bradbury
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by… — Ivan Illich
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this:… — Orson Scott Card
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for… — Deb Caletti
It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea. Humanity is mind… — David Icke

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