Quotes About Manipulation

He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned... ...But how could he manage to burn her dress? She'd have to not be wearing it, and that posed a certain challenge in and of itself...

You're twisting my words." "I think you are doing a fine job of twisting them yourself.

She didn"t like to be thwarted, and she certainly did not enjoy admitting that she might not be able to arrange her world—and the people inhabiting it—to her satisfaction.

He was asleep, and probably still more than a little bit drunk, and she could do whatever she wanted with him.

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

This is politics. In politics, you only show the cake but not the ingredients. The time will come when I show you the cake and the ingredients.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

Whether its Republicans or Democrats, if they try to leverage the intelligence community for political gain, I won't allow it.

Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

I think the Russians have gotten a great return on investment for a very small amount of, of election interference.