Quotes About Manipulation

Female psychotic bosses can be particularly devilish. They will tend to mix in a lot of passive aggression, making you feel guilty for all kinds of things.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

Everyone loves puppets.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

The whole purpose of Russian propaganda is to show that the U.S. and U.S. politics is filled with hubris and hypocrisy and to show it is not better than anyone else.

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do.

I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

Putin is like Al Capone.

Putin drops bombs. We drop leaflets.

Mr. Putin's primary goal in the 2016 elections was to delegitimize our institutions and pit Americans against each other.

If you're fixing a game, you're making calls up against star players to get that star player to the bench so that team is at a major disadvantage.