Top 369 Manipulation Quotes & Sayings

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

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

I don't think I have the manipulation gene in me.

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

I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game.

The key to victory lies more in manipulation and cooperation than in exceptional personal skills.

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

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

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

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

I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard it was a form of manipulation too. Subsequently, we've had to engage with a lot of things that we used to disavow as manipulation. We can't just dismiss everything as manipulations anymore, since the alternatives are constructions, too. From our perspective, from this corner of the planet, we have to admit that it's all constructed. There is absolutely no nature. Nature is one of the biggest constructions.

I'm very good at manipulation.

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.

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

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

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

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

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."

I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.

Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access. The President of the United States has access to almost everybody for almost anything he might want of them, and almost nobody has access to him. The super-rich have access to almost everybody; almost nobody has access to them. ... The creation and manipulation of power is constituted of the manipulation and control of access.

You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.

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

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

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

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.