31 Movie Quotes about Manipulation (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about manipulation, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 My children, the only true technology is nature. All the other forms of manmade technology are perversions. The ancient dictators used technology to enslave the masses.

Bob Holt as Avatar in Wizards (1977)

12 Greed, deception, abuse of power. That's no plan.

Denis Leary as Edgar Friendly in Demolition Man

13 My father keeps them fighting each other constantly. It's a really brilliant strategy.

Ornella Muti as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon (1980)

14 See, people who are paranoid are easily manipulated if you play on their very fears.

Dwight Schultz as Howling Mad Murdock in The A-Team

15 And never forget... Anybody can control a woman's body, see, but the key is to control her mind.

Max Julien as Goldie The Mack in The Mack (1973)

16 These are my people out here. I got a whole thing out here. I'm controlling. I got a lot of things. I'm manipulating. I got a nice life, man.

Max Julien as Goldie The Mack in The Mack (1973)

17 He's been kind to me. -Perhaps he had a motive. Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General

18 I hate that the medias... you know, they're trying to control our minds. -The media? -Yeah, the media.

Julie Delpy as Céline in Before Sunrise

19 That's funny, I hadn't thought - they didn't really speak to me at all, they just planted the thoughts in my mind.

Quote from Dimension X

20 We always knock over a few cathouses before election. You know that. To get the family vote.

Vincent Gardenia as Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman in The Front Page (1974)