Quotes About Manipulated

Hoover Dam became concrete proof that America's engineering skill and industrial might together could work a kind of magic. Land and water existed only as rough raw materials to be manipulated, to be subdued, to be conscripted to the cause of the common good. The desert would bloom and great cities would sparkle with light if only we would set our machines in motion.

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.

The business model of the press manipulated our brains until our emotions overwhelmed whatever traces of rationality we started with.

The only reason Francis is in this business is because it's the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he's a master manipulator.

Empty mind people believe in fabricated news and manipulated virus cases because they can't see how without mask and social distancing movie personality so- called fake celebrity attending award functions, politicians holding mass rally activity, cricketer fraternity playing games with spectators in plenty, rich community throwing big party and how ordinary people on roads are being charged for not wearing masks with penalty besides lockdown atrocity on common population by authority.

I don't like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You'd do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You're going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

What an ephemeral thing human will is, to be manipulated by a couple of drops of hormones!

I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.

Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.

The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent.

Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.

Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

Old school fans are going to be shocked at just how much of the pro wrestling they grew up watching was, indeed, contrived, manipulated or, as it's called in the business, 'worked.'

Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda that might or might not have anything at all to do with reality. But then as now, being a canny and independent-minded consumer of popular media did not bar one from also enjoying being manipulated by it.

Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that.

In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.

What most small investors didn't realize was that things were often stacked against them. Many of the most respected business leaders in the country took part in syndicates in which share prices were shamelessly manipulated for the sake of a large, quick gain at the expense of innocent investors. One such, reported by the financial writer John Brooks in his classic Once in Golconda, involved such

Some of the information in those binders was even manipulated to appear more damaging to Oppenheimer.