Quotes About Manipulation

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

When a few people control the bulk of money, they can not only influence elections by money power - which enables various forms of advertising and propaganda campaigns - they can also corrupt and misuse all institutions of the state to influence elections.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Half-baked truth is dangerous - be it the propaganda of media or somebody else.

Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.

If you look back at history, most important PR and propaganda was invented by the Communist Party.

The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.

To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

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This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.

And so, by the arts of Ulysses, [5] they drew me from my mother under pretense of being wedded to Achilles.