Top Manipulation Quotes
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
Dean Koontz
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
Javier Bardem
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
Norman Spinrad
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
Gavin Bryars
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
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins 
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays
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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
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
Talcott Parsons
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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
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I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
Garth Ennis
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China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
Virginia Foxx
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I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
Ikue Mori
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Popular Manipulation Authors
Marshall McLuhanHenry FordDean KoontzThornton WilderNeil LaButeKate MillettJohn SextonNoam ChomskyVirginia FoxxTalcott ParsonsSean BoothVictoria AbrilGavin BryarsKatherine DunnJavier Bardem
June JordanNorman SpinradJasper JohnsJoyce BrothersIkue MoriGarth EnnisJohn GriersonJohn PerkinsStephen Jay GouldJim BolgerPhilip K. DickJohn BoormanSergei EisensteinBruce KentRobert A. Brady
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