Manipulation Quotes - Page 12

• Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.

  Samuel Homola

  Pain, Support, Necks

  Samuel Homola (1999). “Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide”

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• What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what I write is liked by the public, I have immediate feedback. There are so many things I want to say - about events in the news, politics, the gamesmanship and manipulations I read about, thoughts that occur to me about the power game, advice, on and on.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Games, Advice

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

  John Grierson

  Done, May, Way

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• A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Exercise, Years

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• I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Winning, Thinking, Sales Person

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

  Victoria Abril

  Two, People, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

  B. F. Skinner

  Effort, Mind, Behaviour

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• Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Eye, Rights, Giving

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

  Justin Sane

  Media, Issues, Care

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• There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

  Lionel Tiger

  Illumination, Anxiety, Wish

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• They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Thinking, Giving, Desire

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1973). “Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  Maturity, People, Lasts

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

  Alvin Langdon Coburn

  Believe, Wish, Negative

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

  Raymond Aron

  Future, Enemy, Manipulate

  The Opium of the Intellectuals Chapter IX (p. 284}

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• You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

  Veronica Roth

  Protecting Her, Laughing, Mind

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• Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Opposites, Growth

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• We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

  Dorothy Height

  Opportunity, Skills, Giving

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• I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

  Lauryn Hill

  People, Forgiving, Resentment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

  Cornel West

  Civilization, Nihilism, Mastery

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 20, 2012

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• Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Army, Deception, Enemy

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.81, Macmillan

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• And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

  Deb Caletti

  Sorry, Powerful, Smart

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea. Humanity is mind controlled and onlyslightly more conscious than your average zombie. Far fetched? No, no. I define mind control as the manipulation of someone's mind so that they think, and therefor act, the way you want them to.

  David Icke

  Believe, Thinking, Average

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Feelings, Want

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• This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

  Charles Yu

  Strong, Past, Worry

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.14, Vintage

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• 'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.

  David Foster Wallace

  Names, Ideas, Bullshit

  "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men".

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