Manipulation Quotes

248 quotes by 222 authors

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. — Joseph Wambaugh
We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and… — Jared Diamond
That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a… — Gene Siskel
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third… — Sunny Murray
We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In… — Edward Bernays
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the… — Edward Bernays
The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in… — Edward Bernays
Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close. — Daisaku Ikeda
Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or… — Jill Bolte Taylor
To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in… — John William Willis-Bund
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis… — Noam Chomsky
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. — Ingrid Newkirk
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth… — Jaron Lanier
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the… — Gilbert Sorrentino
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden
The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is… — Barbara Marciniak
As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger,… — Chip Ingram
Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up. — Jessica Zafra
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity… — Chris Hedges

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