Quotes for All
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. Evgeny Morozov
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, you’ll do what I tell you relationship. Eve Ensler
We invented our computers in the ’80s. We networked them together in the ’90s. Now we’re giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we’re asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf. Esther Dyson
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers. Erwin Chargaff
What you might call the symbol pushers – that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate – to use a better or nicer word – manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, … Read more
Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to … Read more
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. Erich Fromm
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things. Erich Fromm
I think that natural beauty is very charismatic… I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much. Elle Macpherson
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor … Read more