Top 30 Easily Manipulated Quotes
#1. People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.
Tony Kushner
#2. Alice? You didn't get this far without realizing that you don't have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.
Elle Lothlorien
#3. I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don't have to push things away mentally ... If we 'cotton-ball' kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.
Morris Gleitzman
#4. You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.
Dick Cheney
#6. Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.
George Gerbner
#7. It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.
William Randolph Hearst
#8. Revolution?" Arno laughed. "What happened wasn't a revolution. It was a deal. The creation of a new bunch of entrepreneurs who could be more easily manipulated by international capital.
Harry Kalmer
#9. Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
Jena Malone
#10. (John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.
Scott Farris
#11. Men are children," my mother instructed me. To her they always seemed pitiable, easily manipulated creatures, good for sex, to be sure, but in important matters not to be counted on.
Wendy W. Fairey
#12. Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
Nicholas Von Hoffman
#13. Those who depend fully on another person's knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields , but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.
Joelle Charbonneau Independent Study
#14. Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
Antony Beevor
#15. An easily manipulated population that cares mostly for its own amusement may be more ready for tyranny (which can keep the masses happy with "bread and circuses") than for the arduous responsibilities of self-government.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#16. Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates
Robert Ludlum
#17. Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#18. I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.
Lindy Booth
#19. The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer ... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.
William J. Mitchell
#20. The maxim of "Four legs good, two legs bad," which ultimately serves as a controlling device, arises because of the ignorance of the working animals. Its simplicity allows it to be easily altered and manipulated.
Shmoop
#21. I want my kisses to haunt his dreams. I want him to beg for me. Seriously, the next time he tries to kiss me, I'm going to turn the other way. I want him down on his knees begging, Please, Boots, please!
Jillian Dodd
#22. If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
Marianne Moore
#23. The tomb of ancient Egyptian Great Chief of the Oryx, Baqet III (2500 B.C.)
Jessie Perault
#24. Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
Edward Young
#25. The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.
Harriet Quimby
#26. Cake," said Mma Ramotswe quickly. "That is Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's great weakness. He cannot help himself when it comes to cake. He can be manipulated very easily if he has a plate of cake in his hand.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?
Neal Boortz
#28. what consumers are willing to pay can easily be manipulated, and this means that consumers don't in fact have a good handle on their own preferences
Dan Ariely
#29. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
Evita Ochel
#30. I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.
Stephen Harper
