Manipulation Quotes - Page 9

• Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Rap, Dirty

  "Right Trade, Wrong Time". www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Sometimes I'm surprised when someone who has achieved success is incredibly Machiavellian in their manipulations. So, while I want to believe it's integrity, that might just show how naïve I am. I sometimes worry that I might not be shrewd enough to maneuver myself through the Hollywood system.

  Nia Vardalos

  Integrity, Believe, Worry

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop it, and start it again. There is no other art form that does that type of manipulation in that way.

  Danny Boyle

  Art, Doe, Momentum

  "Interview: Director Danny Boyle Goes Back to 'T2 Trainspotting'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 22, 2017.

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• The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Games, Evil, Worst

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, People, Cynical

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• A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Goal, Literature

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• We're going to stand up to China, we're going to stop their currency manipulation and product dumping, which is killing us.

  Donald Trump

  Killing, Currency, China

  Source: time.com

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• I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency - and I mean fast; I mean really fast - we are going to tax your products 25%.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Currency, China

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Smart, Stupid

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Media, Emotion

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Attachment, Engineering, Deception

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• Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Editing, Rooms, Action

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• What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Decision, Opinion

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where the local coffee shop is which happens to have paid, you know, whoever makes your phone at the right moment. I think we're in a future where frankly we are possibly facing little tiny bits of manipulation in all of our waking hours, if we don't have that already.

  Tim Wu

  Drinking, Coffee, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Unique, Laughing, Most Amazing

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• Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

  Jeff Goodell

  Climate, Earth, Global Warming

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• Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.

  Edward Bernays

  Thinking, Competition, Majority

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.21, Lulu.com

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

  Neville Marriner

  Sound, Singers, Difficult

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• HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.

  Sarah Schulman

  Emotional, Law, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Blue, Sky

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

  June Jordan

  Mean, People, Leader

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• For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Color, Example, Cinema

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, Government, People

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Psychics

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