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

    Men   Psychology   Tools  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.189, Open Road Media
  • Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

    Art   Stars   Hands  
    "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 16,
  • We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

    Stars   Ice   Design  
  • Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

    Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press
  • The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

    Writing   Winning   Way  
    Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.
  • (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

  • Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

    "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
  • This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

    "CJAD" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. November 21, 1994.
  • I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

    Love   Life   Courage  
    j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”
  • The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

  • The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

  • Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

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

    "Media Manipulated!" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 09, 1989.
  • I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language.

    Pain   Talking   Abortion  
  • The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.

  • Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

    Dark   People   Filters  
    "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
  • The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

  • Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

    Powerful   Yield   Demand  
    Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

    War   People   Political  
  • Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  • How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

    Trying   Bed   Breakfast  
  • 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.

  • Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold.

    Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co
  • The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

    Vernor Vinge (2017). “The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)”, p.448, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Effort   Mind   Behaviour  
  • I've never tried to manipulate my image.

  • Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

  • The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

    Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House
  • Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

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

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