Quotes About Manipulation

In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

It starts with denigrating experts so people don't trust facts, then it destabilises institutions, then it works to get its message out in the media, so that's what people cling to.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

I didn't take the fight with Michael Grant because the timing wasn't right. They offered me a lot of money, but it wasn't in my best interest to take that fight. They were trying to use me to build up Michael Grant.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.

I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.

It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.

My problem is I cannot be manipulative and diplomatic. And to survive on a show like BB,' you have to be very smart. I cannot put so much pressure on my mind. It will be a mental pressure on me.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.