Manipulator Quotes

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating. (Martin Amis)
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion. View quote
R. S. Thomas
Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change. View quote
Kim Harrison
I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on. View quote
Matthew McConaughey
I cannot help believing that Mucius was all the more lucky because he manipulated the flames as calmly as if he were holding out his hand to the manipulator. He had wiped out all his previous mistakes; he finished the war unarmed and maimed; and with that stump of a hand he conquered two kings. View quote
Seneca
She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ("Cue the tears!"). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same. View quote
Camille Paglia
I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well. View quote
Wilbur Smith
You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. View quote
J.R. Ward
Maurice Joly: In "Caesar” I bluntly accused our emperor of evil offenses...in ‘''this''' book I expose the nature of the man's mind, how he thinks, y'see! Alphonse: But, Maurice, this Napoleon has seduced the public with social gifts...libraries and wars to give them national patriotic pride. Maurice Joly: BAH! That is the kind of pallitative all dictators give their masses! But at what price? I ask you! Alphonse: So...you show his plan by the dialogue of Machiavelli who is known as a cunning manipulator of political power, eh? Maurice Joly: Yes, this is the clearest way to show the similarity of Napoleon's mind to Machiavelli's! Alphonse: Hmmm! A clever device I must admit! View quote
Will Eisner
"Hey," he'd said, "it's me. Case." The old eyes regarding him out of their dark webs of wrinkled flesh. "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste." The bartender shrugged. "I came back." The man shook his massive, stubbled head. "Night City is not a place one returns to, artiste," he said, swabbing the bar in front of Case with a filthy cloth, the pink manipulator whining. View quote
William Gibson
My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years. (Chaim Potok)
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
The presentation of facts in logical form contributes to a confusion between discovery and proof. If the process of discovery were mere synthesis, any mechanical manipulator of prior partial concepts would have reached the insight and it would not have taken a genius to arrive at it. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
As a result of letting the drive for power dominate existence, man is bound to lose his sense for nature's otherness. Nature becomes a utensil, an object to be used. The world ceases to be that which is and becomes that which is available. It is a submissive world that modern man is in the habit of sensing, and he seems content with the riches of thinghood. Space is the limit of his ambitions, and there is little he desires besides it. Correspondingly, man’s consciousness recedes more and more in the process of reducing his status to that of a consumer and manipulator. He has enclosed himself in the availability of things, with the shutters down and no sight of what is beyond availability. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
A post-war anti-Communist paranoia was constructed by J. Edgar Hoover, a friend and manipulator of every president since the 1920's. It flared in the machinations of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), formerly the Dies Committee. It spread like the proverbial prairie fire, fanned by the shameful Senate hearings conducted by Hoover's close friend Joseph McCarthy. View quote
Elaine Brown