Top 317 Manipulated Quotes & Sayings

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.

It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.

Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.

I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.

We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me.

Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.

Manipulated, one manipulates others.

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I spent my teenage years and early 20s being manipulated - well, not manipulated, but I was told what to do and what to say by agents and managers, and when I was around 23 I thought 'I am sick of pretending to be someone and saying all these things that don't really resonate with me.'

I hated how Sam Rothstein got manipulated by Sharon Stone's character in 'Casino.' I mean, I just hate how he gets manipulated; that just gets ridiculous to me. I know it's historic, but I hated that.

Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.

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

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated

Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

I truly am not a fan of iPhones, iTunes, Facebook, cell phones - all of these ways to be manipulated these days.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

The first time I experimented with sound design was on 'Fruitvale Station,' where I recorded the BART train and manipulated it.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

The automatic mind of the patient, the lowest level of subconsciousness which controls the etheric double, is manipulated and is the vehicle of the healing.

I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

For decades, without so much as a peep from the Trump-hating establishment, China manipulated its currency and stole American technology.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.