#manipulate

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. ↗

— John Langdon

#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system. ↗

— Ludacris

#crooked #lot #manipulate #out #system

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

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#me #trying #working #you

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

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#acting #emotions #heart #i #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