Quotes About Manipulation

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.

For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Money is a mechanism for control.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.

I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.

As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries are really a batch of manipulations and lies.

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

The Million Dollar Man was to professional wrestling what Ebenezer Scrooge is to Christmas. He was like a rich bully. He bullied everybody with his money, and his motto was 'Everybody's got a price.'

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

What words openly declare can be tested against empirical evidence, but what words insinuate can bypass that safeguard. Even an innocent-sounding phrase like "income distribution," endlessly repeated, can suggest a process in which income exists somehow and is then distributed, as one might distribute food at a dinner table or gifts at Christmas.

Thus spoke the Lacedaemonians, thinking that the Athenians, who had formerly been desirous of making terms with them, and had only been prevented by their refusal, would now, when peace was offered to them, joyfully agree and would restore their men. But the Athenians reflected that, since they had the Lacedaemonians shut up in the island, it was at any time in their power to make peace, and they wanted more.

Yes, it's easy to lie with statistics—but it's even easier to lie without them.*