Manipulation Quotes - Page 7

• 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, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

  Chip Ingram

  Hurt, Patterns, Bitterness

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• 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 or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.

  Matt Walsh

  Block, Believe, Trying

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• 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 hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicide, Sex, Body

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• These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Terrorism, Economic

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• Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Government, Arms, Invisible

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• 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 for meaningful democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Self, Intellectual

  Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.8, Pluto Press

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• 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 and beauty

  Jaron Lanier

  Struggle, Artist, Deception

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• Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ownership

  "Harper's Magazine", August 1, 1988.

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• The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.

  Martin Ryle

  Real, Heart, Engineering

  Letter to Professor Carlos Chagas, February 24, 1983.

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• This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify its scientific basis. If you are contemplating or receiving chiropractic care, it might help protect both your pocketbook and your health.

  Samuel Homola

  Pain, Book, Chiropractic Care

  Samuel Homola (1999). “Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide”

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• The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

  Vernor Vinge

  Heart, Touched

  Vernor Vinge (2017). “The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)”, p.448, Macmillan

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• A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete.

  Andrew Saul

  Healing, Vitamins And Minerals, America

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Children, Discipline, Training

  "Interview with Dr. Ben Carson on Education". TheBestSchools.org Interview, thebestschools.org.

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• Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

  Ian Wilmut

  Kind, Should, Embryos

  "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume?". Interview with Andrew Ross, www.salon.com. February 24, 1997.

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• Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

  Paulo Freire

  Welfare Programs, Causes, Problem

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Suicide, Grief, Perspective

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.591, Duke University Press

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• There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Jobs, Photographer

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• Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Stars, Hands

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 16,

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• Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

  Dennis Altman

  Identity, Matter, Realizing

  Dennis Altman (1974). “Homosexual; oppression and liberation”, Lane, Allen

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• There is a way to again be in real time with the universe,
  but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.
  It is by finding your true Self.
  When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.

  Mooji

  Life, Time, Real

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.248, New Harbinger Publications

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• If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

  Jaron Lanier

  Money, Artist, Musician

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.83, Vintage

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• Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

  David Icke

  People, Different, Today

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

  Leo Ryan

  People, Mind, Lost

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• It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.

  Allen Newell

  Plato, Taught Us, Space

  "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 125), March 1976.

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• Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Yield, Stubborn, Facts

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