Top 1200 Psychological Manipulation Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.

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

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

Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.

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

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

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

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

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.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

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

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

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

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

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

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

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

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

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

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

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

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

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

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

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

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

My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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

Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

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

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

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.

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

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

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

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

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

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

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

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