Quotes About Manipulation Of Power

#1. 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

#2. Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it, what can we say are the two most important concept results of all that effort?

Patricia Churchland

#3. And she liked it. The power over this man. The ability to choose who survived. To take lives and twist them as she pleased. She was power.

Michael Walterich

#4. She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

Ann Brashares

#5. Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

A.J. Darkholme

#6. Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.

Harold Bloom

#7. The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.

Elfriede Jelinek

#8. I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

Nicolas Cage

#9. And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

Beth Revis

#10. Any time a system that justifies power can be conceived of running without that power, all those who profit from the manipulation of that power cry out that without them, all is lost.

Stefan Molyneux

#11. Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long
as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is
the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.

David Steindl-Rast

#12. [Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

A.J. Darkholme

#13. My kids are so much better parent than I was.

Dick Van Dyke

#14. These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Edward Snowden

#15. Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together.

Pope Francis

#16. When will women become civilized enough to stop mistreating men? When will they cease from training their lovers to become providers, merely because they have the power to do so?
As long as they continue as they are, men have no alternative to polygamy.

Esther Vilar

#17. ...this is a way of handling a fear of losing control. One way - which is perhaps not the best way - to try and regain control is to talk, talk, talk.
Love Professor - to Jennifer

Jennifer Cox

#18. Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.

Mark Frost

#19. Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space ... but I don't understand that.

Jasper Johns

#20. I have so many goals.

Tyra Banks

#21. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Evita Ochel

#22. Our capacity as human beings for imagination and storytelling makes us exquisitely vulnerable to exploitation by those who understand the properties of ideological power.

David Smail

#23. Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.

Michael Light

#24. Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#25. Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation ... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Bruce Kent

#26. It's gonna be fine in the end. If it's not fine, it is not the end.

Morra Quatro

#27. A lily does not lose its beauty because it blooms in muddy waters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Impact people's lives positively

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Madeleine L'Engle

#30. When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

A.J. Darkholme

#31. We can be seduced ... by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Jean Vanier

#32. eyes blacker than midnight paralyzed her. A draconian was in fact sitting in the church waiting for her, but it wasn't Kiev. It wasn't even Raum. It was Ash.

Annette Marie

#33. The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice; the true Christian does not.

Billy Graham

#34. What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

Robert Greene

#36. Hannah: What's your plan?
Claire: Go get him
Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.

Rachel Caine

#37. Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.

Bob Hawke