Top 100 Manipulate Quotes
#1. But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.
Julian Barnes
#2. I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
Alice McDermott
#4. National identity acts as a consumer lever to manipulate the emotions of the masses, for the purposes of power regulation and the fulfillment of agenda
Bryant McGill
#5. I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.
Keith Barry
#6. Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
Angelique Kidjo
#7. The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.
John Kramer
#8. There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
Peter Greenaway
#9. To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them.
Dallas Willard
#10. They're not their rules. They're our rules, the rules of the Western countries, the civilized side of the world. And every terrorist knows how to manipulate them in their own favor.
Marcus Luttrell
#11. Children born deaf of deaf parents have no language delay at all: being exposed to Sign from birth enables a baby to develop as full a vocabulary as the hearing, not just to describe the world, but to manipulate abstract concepts.
Anonymous
#12. Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
Jon Fishman
#13. If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it.
Elizabeth Chandler
#14. The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
Daisaku Ikeda
#15. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.
Peter Moon
#16. Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.
Paulo Coelho
#17. If you can manipulate people, you can make them do anything.
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.
Myles Munroe
#19. Here, in this universe, what differentiated science from witchcraft was that scientists had fewer resources and couldn't magically manipulate the natural world by will alone.
Josephine Angelini
#20. I've carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it's on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
Guy Davenport
#21. Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.
Stephen Covey
#22. Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.
Alex Pareene
#23. The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.
Laszlo Bock
#24. Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.
Carroll Quigley
#25. If Stalin was such a bad guy, why do all these people have to resort to attributing to him almost entirely quotes he didn't make, or manipulate his actual quotes just enough to make them seem evil?
Joseph Stalin
#26. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.
Peter Ferrara
#27. Rahul's great idea, he said that having either darkness or too much white made someone's sanity decay and made them easier to manipulate. In the dark, though, they felt they could hide, and in Rahul's words ... 'They can hide, but they can't run' he used that like a mantra.
Mercy Cortez
#29. When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
Don DeLillo
#30. NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.
Jenifer Mohammed
#31. After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
Steve Toltz
#32. We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.
Clive Thompson
#33. It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not lie to me, I should be needing all the power I could muster, to pit against a woman; and this is harder to do than anything concerning men, as air is harder to see than a mountain.
Mary Stewart
#34. Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.
Ahmed Zewail
#35. You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
Krishna Das
#36. When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
Frederick Lenz
#37. His rage fed my reckless euphoria. He couldn't stand having his authority challenged, and that made him easy to manipulate.
I was in chains, but he was losing control.
Rachel Vincent
#38. Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.
Frederick Lenz
#39. I think skilled salesmen have the ability to work out who you are and pick out aspects of your personality. They almost manipulate you, in a way, to make you buy their product.
Dominic Cooper
#40. two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Simon Sinek
#41. Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you're eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it's really helpful.
Nick Youngquest
#42. Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime ... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.
Inez Milholland
#43. We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.
Richard J. Foster
#44. When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.
Gregory Hartley
#45. Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.
Kathy Change
#46. The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#47. I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, but I was also learning how to manipulate computers.
Tod Machover
#48. Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.
Richard Ray Perez
#49. But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
Dario Argento
#50. Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only their prison has more people.
Nigel Brennan
#51. Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.
Gary Zukav
#52. I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
Randy Harrison
#53. I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things.
Aser Alas Jr.
#54. However, when you create a model from proxies, it is far simpler for people to game it. This is because proxies are easier to manipulate than the complicated reality they represent.
Cathy O'Neil
#55. Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.
Mallory Ortberg
#56. Yet Jobs knew that he could manipulate Sculley by encouraging his belief that they were so alike. And the more he manipulated Sculley, the more contemptuous of him he became.
Walter Isaacson
#57. When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#58. Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
Richard Foreman
#59. You can't manipulate me. I made the choice because you look like some lost puppy dog at the the thought of losing me, and I felt bad for you.
Stephanie Rowe
#60. Don't be ridiculous," Mg. Aviosky assured her as Magicians Katter and Hughes studied Mg. Thane lying on the floor by the light of four candles. "The only one who can manipulate Emery Thane's future is Emery Thane himself.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#61. Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
David Crystal
#62. If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
Pele
#63. Tricking people who want to hurt or manipulate me? Something I'm good at. Getting people to like and trust me? Something I'm bad at.
Benedict Jacka
#64. A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love
Deepak Chopra
#65. I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.
Arca
#66. The greatest gift that God has given you next to your very life is the right to choose - your agency. He will guide you, inspire you, but He will never manipulate or coerce you.
Toni Sorenson
#67. When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
Aurora Levins Morales
#68. 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.
George Takei
#69. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
Charles R. Swindoll
#70. Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin.
Neal Stephenson
#71. A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
Dan Gilroy
#72. After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.
Michael Hastings
#73. There is a way to again be in real time with the universe,
but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.
It is by finding your true Self.
When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.
Mooji
#74. Want to help stop the bullying epidemic? Don't act like a bully. Don't hit, threaten, ignore, isolate, intimidate, ridicule, or manipulate your child. Children really do learn what they live ...
L.R. Knost
#75. There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.
Erich Fromm
#76. When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.
Marci Shimoff
#77. If we really knew the God of Jesus, we would stop trying to control and manipulate others "for their own good," knowing full well that this is not how God works among His people. - The Signature of Jesus
Brennan Manning
#78. You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
Bill Budge
#79. That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
Gene Siskel
#80. Only by renunciation of the desire to manipulate and control will the ego melt into the Universal Self of Infinite, Eternal Love.
Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
#81. I've never tried to manipulate my image.
Alan Alda
#82. The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.
Ransom Riggs
#83. I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
Joey Skaggs
#84. If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo
#85. Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
Steven Magee
#86. It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#87. It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.
Ludacris
#88. Honesty is a most dreadful quality - it makes people difficult to manipulate,
Ashwin Sanghi
#89. 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
#90. There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.
Randal Marlin
#91. Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. "Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people."
--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans
Marilyn Bay Wentz
#92. As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
Bill Watterson
#93. Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.
Sharon Salzberg
#94. Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.
Andy Mineo
#95. Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
Amishi Jha
#96. I suppose The Beautiful Woman Who Can Manipulate the World with Her Mind' is too unweildy.
Erin Morgenstern
#97. A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.
Sol Stein
#98. As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.
Peter Jackson
#99. When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
Charles Eisenstein
#100. People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
Bob Goff
