Quotes About Manipulation

Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

We've learned that Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and switch it a minute later, and nobody really cares.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. So, I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.