Quotes About Manipulation

You got to know what the defense looks for and use that against them.

The lunatic racist left is starting to lose. So, as is always the case, change the rules of the game, obfuscate, argue about definitions.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

I think if you try to force a personality on a world then I think you're destined to fail.

The Democrats are evil, and they crave power. They're willing to destroy any decent man or woman to attain it.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game.

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

Marketing is the devil.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.