Top 540 Manipulate Quotes & Sayings

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

You must discriminate between those who claim to help you and only want to manipulate you and those who are free, who never manipulate.

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

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, this sort of experience, and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and an intelligent mini.

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

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

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

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

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

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.

The perfect victim, from the sociopath's point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent?

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.

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

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

It's my job to manipulate feelings.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

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

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

When you're young, you can be mislead by older people, who know how to manipulate you.

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

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

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

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.

If Putin decides to run, which we are assuming that he will, there really isn't anything that can stop him. He can manipulate the system so that he has not real opponents; he can manipulate the media so that nobody else gets any coverage. And then, if worse comes to worse, he can - as he has done in the past - just change the electoral results. So, it's not like it's going to be a very exciting election.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.