Quotes About Manipulation

We have screwed with our environment. We have a culture that's going crazy, and it's all being propelled by the trillion-dollar advertising corporations.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

Hardly anyone says anything real in the courtroom. Almost everything is decided ahead of time, and the truth is found behind the scenes.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

I always believe that when you're not courageous, you become cunning.

Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Arsene has most of the media in his pocket now and is almost - almost - affecting the officials so that you can't tackle an Arsenal player. That's something he's very clever at working on and it's almost working in his favour, you can see that.

Scarcity is a good sales tactic if you are selling something people want.

Cambridge Analytica's tactics contributed to a world where people kind of hate each other, and don't want to talk to each other, don't want to hear each other, don't want to speak to each other.

Tactics are manipulative.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

Corrupt people sometimes are smart; some of them are dull, but some of them are very smart. They can hide their corruption tactics.

Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control us - they were all in that book.

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.