Manipulate Quotes

• When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

  Michael Ende

  Lying, Deceit, Manipulation

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  Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

  William Arthur Ward

  Respect, Blessed, Blessing

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• Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Coward, Used, Fascists

  Misattributed. "Christopher Hitchens Never Said That Memorable Line About Islamophobia" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 12, 2014.

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• Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Emotional, Control Someone, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 07, 2011

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• When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Insecure, Feelings, Advantage

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.182, North Atlantic Books

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• I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, People, Cynical

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• Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

  Raymond Aron

  Future, Enemy, Manipulation

  The Opium of the Intellectuals Chapter IX (p. 284}

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• We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

  Robert Byrd

  Men, Law, Majority

  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.83, Macmillan

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• It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

  John Boorman

  Thinking, People, Cynical

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• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Creating, Trying, Warfare

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• Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

  Jim Bolger

  Issues, Support, Democracy

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• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan

  Future, Past, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Goal, Literature

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• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Jail

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

  Mos Def

  Observation, Asks

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

  Dave Grohl

  Different, Tape, Way

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• A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Jail

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Intelligent, Nwo

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

  Erich Fromm

  History, Growth, Connections

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.134, Routledge

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• We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

  Dorothy Height

  Opportunity, Skills, Giving

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• The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

  Tammy Bruce

  Children, Way, Manipulation

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.195, Crown Forum

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• Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

  Erich Fromm

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

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• But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

  Dario Argento

  Should Have, Manipulation, Firsts

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• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  Christopher Lasch

  Issues, Purpose, Manipulation

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