Quotes About Manipulation

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

If anyone pays me a compliment, I'll do almost anything.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

La démagogie est l'hypocrisie du progrès.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

That man could hide behind a corkscrew he's so twisted.

We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those of the editor; and even the editor doesn't have the right to think with his own head, because when he's sent for by the board of directors he has to stifle his own views, if he has any, and support those of the shareholders.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

How, then, might we contrive… one noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.