Quotes About Manipulation

Although the most amount of attention went to what happened in the United States and in Brexit, Cambridge Analytica and its predecessor, SCL Group, worked in countries around the world, particularly in the developing world, to manipulate elections for their clients. So it was global.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

Anchors aren't just creating fiction; they're becoming characters in the fiction they themselves create. In the world of TV channels, facts are presented like fiction, so governments aren't inconvenienced; fiction is presented like fact, so governments stay happy.

People who are desperate for Barack Obama to win the presidency are capable of practically anything.

Pena Nieto is a product of the two television networks that groomed him for power and then propelled him to the presidency.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Women - whether in politics, media or business - can't have it both ways. We can't demand to be judged irrespective of our gender if we also plan to manipulate our sexual identity to our advantage. We can't both play the game and pretend to be sitting it out. We can't deliberately act 'female' and complain about male bias.

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

Populism is dangerous.

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.

Deception is everywhere.

All confrontation is based on deception.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.