Quotes About Manipulation

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.

There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?

The fact you can manipulate people because you can hack them and learn everything about their personal lives - that's an immense amount of power.

This country's response to the coronavirus has been disastrous because of poor, incompetent leadership at the national and state levels. More than 4.6 million Americans have become infected with the coronavirus. Basic safety precautions have been manipulated into a political issue.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That's usually enough.