Quotes About Manipulation

to justify their own spilling of ink they spell the day as night

Using fear to build political capital is a tactic as old as politics.

I knew then, she said, that he was a liar, that for all his reportage and his honesty he was determined to keep himself untouched, to take without giving, to hoard himself like a greedy child.

So much of power lies in the ability to see how willing other people are to give it to you.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Shut up, Nick." She yanked the boa free. "You were only out to humiliate me." "Bullshit." "You used me to get back at Henry." He rocked back on his heels and his gaze narrowed. "I never used you. I told you not to worry and that I'd take care of you, but you looked at me like I was some kind of rapist and left with Henry.

The important thing with Facebook is to remember that it played a role in facilitating Brexit because it inadvertently allowed leave-supporting groups to use harvested data to target key voters.

We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails, designed to intimated voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump.

George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, 'If you all can't vote for me, don't vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!' And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

Leaders cling to power in a socialist state like Venezuela by buying votes and manipulating elections.

If I contest elections in a federation, I will not get even four votes. It's all politics and money.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'

American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into another country's voting system.

The Electronic Voting Machines were tampered with in every election since 2014 to defeat the BSP.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even realizing it. Once you know how to push people's buttons, you can play them like a piano.

Cambridge Analytica sought to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and worked to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people, such as neuroticism, paranoia and racial biases.

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.