Quotes About Manipulation

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.

I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

When I shake someone's hand, I apply the lightest pressure on their wrist with my index and middle fingers and lead them across my body to my left. The cross-body lead is actually a move from salsa dancing. I'm finding out what kind of a partner they're going to be, and I know that if they follow my lead, I can do whatever I want with them.

Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

CBS's Major Garrett writes in 'National Journal' about a new version of the 'stray voltage' theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.

What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision clarified, some name Named...and some change managed.

Boq returned the smile, warmly. Glinda used her glitter beads, and you used your exotic looks and background, but weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what you had in order to get what you wanted? People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. He sighed. It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward.

Everybody's on your side until they need something from you.

Madame Morrible, for all her upper-class diction and fabulous wardrobe, seemed just a tad—oh—dangerous. As if her big public smile were composed of the light glancing off knives and lances, as if her deep voice masked the rumbling of distant explosions. Galinda always felt as if she couldn't see the whole picture.

Crush the rich, take food from the poor, keep them barefoot, hungry, uninformed, uneducated, and moneyless. That's how a dictator rises to power.

Car, depuis trois ans, il l'avait soigneusement évitée par suite de cette lâcheté naturelle qui caractérise le sexe fort ; et Emma continuait avec des gestes mignons de tête, plus câline qu'une chatte amoureuse :

As to texts, look at history; it, is known that all the texts have been falsified by the Jesuits.

Le peuple est un troupeau imbécile, tantôt stupidement patient et tantôt férocement révolté. On lui dit : «Amuse-toi.» Il s'amuse. On lui dit : «Va te battre avec le voisin.» Il va se battre. On lui dit : «Vote pour l'Empereur.» Il vote pour l'Empereur. Puis, on lui dit : «Vote pour la République.» Et il vote pour la République.

But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

We still have some time to take advantage of the fact that radio and television stations are not yet guarded by the army.

A lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

Fascism is technologically equipped primitivism.