A Quote by David Anthony Durham

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

David Anthony Durham

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Easiest Emotions Manipulate Revenge Understand

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David Anthony Durham
American - Novelist
Born: March 23, 1969

It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.

Jemele Hill

Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.

Ahmed Zewail

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

Ahmed Kathrada

Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.

Errol Morris

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

Sarah Kane

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

Dan Ariely

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

Ishmael Beah

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

will.i.am

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

Scarlett Johansson

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Steve Martin

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

Cyril Connolly

I named my first album 'The Sound of Revenge' because I wanted to get revenge on everyone who doubted me. But when I finally got revenge, I didn't enjoy it.

Chamillionaire

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Rosanne Cash

But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!