Quotes About Manipulation

Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from iron spearheads to nuclear warheads, yet the disease of power used for control and domination has remained.

The best way to lie is to tell the truth . . . carefully edited truth.

Divide and rule.

The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Yes, I will promise you anything your little elector heart desires... Of course, I have no intention of keeping any promise I make.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.

The DMK may give promises to gain power, but it will implement the promises only if Karunanidhi or his family gets benefitted.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.