#nip

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

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 got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#detached #disturbing #got #head #i

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

#consume #how #know #live #manipulate

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#confuses #itself #omnipotence #power #take

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#because #business #cash #cold #daughter

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