#manipulation

The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#manipulation #seduction #love

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting. ↗

— Sean Booth

#definitely #digital #good #good thing #i

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#abuse #also #although #because #committed

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#buttons #goes #i #instruments #interactive

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent. ↗

— John Sexton

#considerable #correctly #finished #i #i do

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#different #drum #effects #got #i

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#comedy #dark #euphemism #label #manipulation

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗

— Charles Fort

#deception #fortean #hypnosis #manipulation #mind-control

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#cities #colonialism #exploitation #first-world #human-rights