Quotes about manipulation
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Shu Takumi photo

“Unlike novels or movies, video games are an interactive medium where the player's actions drive the story forward, so I had actually wanted to allow players to manipulate the evidence themeselves earlier on in the series.”

Shu Takumi (1971) video game developer

Game

“However, efilism's claim that all life, human and non-human, should be ceased is a hubris I am not convinced humans have a right to exert. While the cessation of suffering humans cause is already manipulated in a way that could come under an efilist rubric, these 'management' tools usually come in the form of culling populations of nonhumans to redress an imagined environmental balance most usually caused by humans in the first place. Domestic efilism such a neutering rescue animals is necessary, especially when rescuing can involve the speciesism of feeding one slaughtered animal to sustain another, and neutering humans is the logical way to prevent the perpetuation of this practice as well”

Patricia MacCormack Australian Scholar

Embracing Death, p. 153
The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (2020)

Life, Way, Imagination, Suffering
Rosa Luxemburg photo

“If we assume the viewpoint claimed as his own by Lenin and we fear the influence of intellectuals in the proletarian movement, we can conceive of no greater danger to the Russian party than Lenin's plan of organization. Nothing will more surely enslave a young labor movement to an intellectual elite hungry for power than this bureaucratic straightjacket, which will immobilize the movement and turn it into an automaton manipulated by a Central Committee. On the other hand there is no more effective guarantee against opportunist intrigue and personal ambition than the independent revolutionary action of the proletariat, as a result of which the workers acquire the sense of political responsibility and self-reliance.”

Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary

Leninism or Marxism? (1904)

Fear, Sense, Personality, Self-confidence

“The nature of liberal democracy prevents propagandistic statements from being banned, since among the liberties it permits is the freedom of speech. But since humans have characteristic rational weaknesses and are susceptible to flattery and manipulation, allowing propaganda has a high likelihood of leading to tyranny, and hence to the end of liberal democracy.”

Jason Stanley book How Propaganda Works

Source: How Propaganda Works (2015), p. 27

Democracy, Nature, Freedom

“Love is just another means of manipulation. We can use that emotion like we use hatred and fear.”

John Twelve Hawks book The Traveler

Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)

Love, Fear, Making love
Tania Raymonde photo

“I find it very scary that people try to profit off of things like genetically manipulating things. For what? There’s a fine line between progress and cruelty. If you change something in nature can you ever really go back and have we already crossed that line?”

Tania Raymonde (1988) American actress

Source: An In Interview With ‘Deep Blue Sea 3’ Star Tania Raymonde https://horrorfuel.com/2020/07/31/an-in-interview-with-deep-blue-sea-3-star-tania-raymonde/ (July 31, 2020)

People, Nature, Change
Scott Adams photo

“Rich guys used to be able to manipulate the stock market and make huge profits at the expense of smaller investors. It was big news when the small investors discovered they'd been screwed. Now there are many safeguards against the small investor ever finding out how much he's getting screwed.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Source: Books, The Dilbert Future (1997)

Guy
Anne Applebaum photo

“Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated”

Anne Applebaum (1964) journalist

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/z4AdQy3VCmgC?hl=en (October 30, 2012).

People, Understanding
Al Sharpton photo

“We don’t want to be manipulated by right-wing elitist billionaires or by left-wing guys that don’t understand our life on the ground that is living in fear of crime, that is living as a result of inflation that is killing us in many parts of the country. We need gas to go to work.”

Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host

“Democratic Outlook for 2022 Midterms” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8LKGL0xXo MSNBC (April 11, 2022)

Life, Fear, Guy, Understanding
Teal Swan photo

“There is a big difference between feeling shame and being shamed… The feeling we call shame is a natural biological affective reaction that is occurring when we fear social consequence. To shame someone is to use the natural biological affective reaction of shame as a tool for manipulating and controlling someone to suit your own interests.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Fear, Feeling, Nature

“When victory is gained by cunning and vicious means. By deceit and manipulation, such victories will never last. History is written by the victors. But history also proves, if the glory that is built with the denial of human values is only waiting for the time of its own destruction.”

Titon Rahmawan

History, Time, Waiting, Victory

“Fools are the easiest targets to manipulate. But it is a useless and futile endeavor, because ignorance will never bring profit.”

Titon Rahmawan

Fools

“A manipulator knows how to capitalize on the strengths and weaknesses of others. They use deception to control others. To be able to avoid this trap, do not be easily lured by lures that sound very tempting before we actually test the reality.”

Titon Rahmawan

Reality

“How easily people fall into hatred. How easily people throw hoaxes and lies. Because they know that nowadays people are also easily instigated, manipulated and agitated.”

Titon Rahmawan

People

“Pornography is definitely not a reflection of real life. Accepted or rejected, it will always be at odds. However, sexual expression in pornography is a celebration of the denial of women's dignity. For a man, it is an affirmation of the myth of masculinity to dominate, to rule and to show his might. Conversely, for a woman, sex must be accepted as a form of willingness to be submissive, to submit to the destruction of her own dignity. In pornography there is no love, no passion or drama. There is only manipulation of the body, the mind and the lowly human desire to be satisfied. That humans cannot be separated from animalistic lust.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Life, Women, Sex

“This world has been corrupt from the beginning. It was humans who corrupted the noble order with manipulative ideas. They always tend to seek justification for themselves. The fact is that no one can escape from personal motives and subjectivity.”

Titon Rahmawan

World, Motivation, Idea, Personality
Isaac Mashman photo

“Public relations, as with all forms of branding and marketing is manipulation. This is why you have to have a firm ethic standing to engage in these practices.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

Prevale photo

“Those who are strong are unlikely to be loved, because they cannot be manipulated.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi è forte difficilmente sarà amato, perché non può essere manipolato.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Strong