Quotes About Manipulation

Politicians always think they know what people feel. It's a fallacy, because there is no such thing as 'the people.' It is a discursive device for summoning the people that you want. You're constructing the people, you're not reflecting the people.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

The North Korean regime really can control people. I think they are the best dictator in the whole planet.

The false black preacher is only too happy to reinforce the idea of the white man as scapegoat. His sermons make the congregation angrier and more bitter. And the angrier they become, the easier it is for the minister to control them.

Iran and Russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion related to our elections.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.

I grew up in a very relaxed environment in one sense, without many rules. My mother had a problem knowing where to draw the line, which caused a chaotic and hectic home life. A lot of people took advantage of my mom.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one way or another. They only care about it insofar as they can use it to manipulate a German sense of guilt.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.

A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Technology favors horrible people.

Some of the scariest movies I've seen are not considered horror movies, like 'Gone Girl.' That movie scared me. I can't watch it again.

I love watching 'House of Cards.'

Who needs shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Scandal' when you can simply turn on the news?

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Pollock delighted in underhand work – it was not so different from being a lawyer