Manipulation Quotes

248 quotes by 222 authors

The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests… — Kevin Myers
What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Everything about a movie is manipulation. — Frederick Wiseman
The world cannot be governed without juggling. — John Selden
Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who… — Frederick Lenz
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see… — David Whyte
To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have… — Peter Welch
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity… — Gerhard Richter
Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies… — Michael Bassey
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all… — Darren Aronofsky
Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only… — Bernardine Dohrn
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. — Allen Ginsberg
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. — Aristophanes
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation. — Wendy Beckett
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later. — Robert B. Laughlin
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. — Walter J. Phillips
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. — Susan Stewart
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? — Eric Maisel
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some… — Wayne Thiebaud

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