Quotes About Manipulation

since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.

All it knows is, if the person doesn't do what you want them to do, beat them up, disapprove of them, send some negative energy their way, ridicule them. This is our idea of love: Do what I want you to do and I'll love you. Don't do what I want you to do and I'll have nothing to do with you. That approach isn't working for you, is it?

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

Magick is the manipulation of the Laws of Cause-and-Effect in accordance with one's Will, via states of Higher Consciousness.

That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.