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• 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 manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Thinking, Giving, Desire

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1973). “Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Believe, Wish, Negative

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• 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 with each other in ways that are totally unpredictable I think this is probably the largest biological experiment humanity has ever entered into.

  Ignacio Chapela

  Moving, Thinking, Dna

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• Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated. The relationship of mankind with nature must not be conducted with greed, manipulation and exploitation, but it must conserve the divine harmony that exists between creatures and Creation within the logic of respect and care, so it can be put to the service of our brothers, also of future generations.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Eye, Garden

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• Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.

  Gore Vidal

  Media, Population, Educated

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• I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

  Demetri Martin

  Trying, Honest, Artifice

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• The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. 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.

  David Icke

  Mean, White, Self

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• The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

  Julian Assange

  Memories, War, Ignorance

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• Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.

  Michael Parenti

  Communication, Political, Mind

  Michael Parenti (2011). “The Culture Struggle”, p.130, Seven Stories Press

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• Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.

  Samuel Homola

  Pain, Support, Necks

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

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• Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.

  Kurt Eichenwald

  Children, Fighting, People

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• What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

  William Safire

  Media, Joy, Media Manipulation

  "Media Manipulated!" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 09, 1989.

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• Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

  Novalis

  God, Spiritual, Moving

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 2, 1798.

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• I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

  Riley Keough

  Dog, Lying, Blackmail

  Interview with Steven Soderbergh, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 26, 2015.

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• The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

  Terence McKenna

  Prey

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  Maturity, People, Lasts

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• Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials of O.J. Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Guilt, Criminals

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• So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Mother, Heart, Years

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• I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.

  Peter Greenaway

  Emotional, Thinking, Doctors

  "Flesh and Ink". Interview with Christopher Hawthorne, www.salon.com. June 06, 1997.

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• Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

  Herbert Hoover

  Agriculture, Currency, Fascists

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.

  Tina Modotti

  Art, Abuse, Trying

  Tina Modotti, Robert Miller, Spencer Throckmorton, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Tina Modotti: photographs”

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• The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  World, Steps, Danger

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• ...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.

  Andy Grundberg

  Media, Worry, Important

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• Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.

  Michael Light

  Beautiful, Age, Degrees

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

  Martha Rosler

  Photography, Shows, Familiarity

  Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.262, MIT Press

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