Manipulation Quotes

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

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 then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

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

Art is manipulation without intervention.

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

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.

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

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.