#manipulate

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#american #aspect #believe #country #events

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#because #business #cash #cold #daughter

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. ↗

— Jena Malone

#because #belief #destructive #easily #manipulated

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. ↗

— Karl Marx

#him #manipulated #mere #object #world

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#born #composer #difference #equipment #hears

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#both #change #does #essential #even

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#change #creating #division #fear #manipulate

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#become #creates #decision #definition #domain

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#cadre #experimenting #gas #god #horrible