Quotes About Manipulation

framing' - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those polices.

They elected a con man instead, an ignorant crook who craved adoration and did and said whatever it took to win. That tore them apart even more.

At the conventional level, the precept of no intoxicants is understood as encouraging us to control our behavior by not using addictive substances to manipulate our state of being. Ironically, using individual effort to try to control our behavior is itself a violation of the ultimate meaning of the precept, because it is akin to manipulating our experience.

In a spectacle of cowardice and political opportunism, the politicians support Hitler and pass a new law.

What Josie had found amusing, exciting and exotic as a girl, she now recognized as nothing more than the underpinnings of Linda's selfishness, arrogance and greed. Linda had burst into Josie's life again, and pulled her into this rollercoaster of a ride. She had been stronger than Josie that night. Now Josie had stepped out of the car and onto the platform. She could see the trajectory of that rollercoaster and knew where it had to stop.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

If people find out something bothers you then they're going to capitalize on it.

Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

I felt cheated because a lot of people wanted a relationship with my father, and they played me.

It is a magical feeling to perform for 50,000 people. You decide when they cheer and when they are quiet. It's like you have them under your control.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.

What gun owners would support policies that are blatantly designed to strip them of their constitutional freedom? To put it bluntly: gullible gun owners.