Manipulation Quotes

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The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so… — Tom Robbins
I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print. — Alvin Langdon Coburn
As we move on into this so-called biotech revolution and we start producing more and more transgenic manipulations, we'll start seeing pieces of DNA interacting… — Ignacio Chapela
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. — Laozi
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation. — Laozi
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a… — Marshall McLuhan
Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old… — Matt Walsh
Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process… — Oliver Heaviside
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources… — Bob Hawke
... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven… — Pope Francis
No love is conditional. If love is conditional, itâ€™s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love. — Donald Miller
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable… — Henri Nouwen
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control… — Adyashanti
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. — Sigmund Freud
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that… — William Kunstler
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a… — Richard Mitchell
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes… — Jacques Ellul
Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like… — Kenny Smith
The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model,… — Wolfgang Schauble

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