Quotes About Manipulation

The right can distort anything it wants.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

BJP can only divide and terrorize people.

People who are divided are easier to control.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Politicians will only exploit you for nothing.

Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything.

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered by rubber bullets.

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

Mayweather does tease people all the time. He likes to get under your skin. That's what he's like.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

There are no techniques in politics.

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.