Quotes About Manipulation

People click on the news they want to hear; Facebook, YouTube, and Google then show them more of whatever it is that they already favor, whether it is a certain brand of soap or a particular form of politics.

Los autoritarios necesitan a gente que promueva los disturbios o desencadene el golpe de Estado. Pero también necesitan a personas que sepan utilizar un sofisticado lenguaje jurídico, que sepan argumentar que violar la Constitución o distorsionar la ley es lo correcto.

algorithms also favor emotions, especially anger and fear. And because the sites are addictive, they affect people in ways they don't expect. Anger becomes a habit. Divisiveness becomes normal.

They didn't just want to oppress us: they wanted us to thank them for it."81

Un sistema amañado y poco competitivo suena mal si queremos vivir en una sociedad dirigida por personas de talento; pero si ese no es nuestro principal interés, ¿qué hay de malo en ello?

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

For you, being around that man is like drinking a glass of poison every day," Nadine said. "Maybe it just makes you sick, makes you weak, makes you forget who you really are and what you really want. But if you keep drinking, sooner or later, the poison will kill you.

He studied her for a long moment. Then he took that last step, bringing him right next to her chair. He leaned over. One hand cupped her face while his lips lightly brushed her cheek. The Sadist whispered in her ear, "He was grateful when I let him die." She shivered—and knew he felt the shiver.

They're never human, Lieutenant. They just mimic us to get what they want.

I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries - and that satisfies me.

You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.

I am sick of rigged elections. We just know who will win, and we can't change it. They get rid of anyone who

Lascia che ti dica qualcosa su tua madre, sebbene non abbia mai avuto il piacere d'incontrarla. Conosco quel tipo di persona. Ne ho conosciute per tutta la mia vita. Ottengono la simpatia degli altri grazie alla loro apparente insicurezza. Ma ciò che veramente li motiva è una vanità così immensa che la maggior parte di noi non riuscirebbe neppure a immaginarla. L'insicurezza è semplicemente una maschera.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it's better than rats.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

It would, of course, have to look like an accident.

Being nice to that woman is like feeding a baby shark so it can grow big enough to eat you.

He finds in them many texts that do not fit into the narrow framework that he has made; and because he too often cares for the framework more than for the truth, he manipulates the text until he can make it fit in, in some dislocated fashion.

It turns out the better you are with numbers, the better you are at spinning those numbers to conform to and support your beliefs.