Quotes About Manipulation

Hay hombres perversos entre nosotros que fomentan las disensiones para pescar en río revuelto o por ambición.

Politics is the art of enriching oneself, the art of robbery.

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding.

I can vividly recall the way, after he had connected its arterial hoses to a wall-mounted lung he kept in the laboratory, he was able to manipulate the actuating rods that protruded from the arm's ragged base, and in response the hand would open and close fitfully.

As I contemplated this vista, I wondered where my body was. The conduits which displaced my vision and action around the room were in principle no different from those which connected my original eyes and hands to my brain. For the duration of this experiment, were these manipulators not essentially my hands? Were the magnifying lenses at the end of my periscope not essentially my eyes? I was an everted person, with my tiny, fragmented body situated at the center of my own distended brain.

Technology is being used to manipulate us through our emotional reactions, so it's only fair that we use it to protect ourselves too.

now lets me provoke precise reactions in others. With pheromones and muscle tension, I can cause another

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding." The room grew light as the man lit an oil lamp.

Who's to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos." The skin of this world," he said quietly.

Growl it, smear it, flat it, sharp it, do anything you want to it.

Applause is the beginning of abuse

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

In one of the most memorable lines that he ever put on paper, Van Buren wrote, "You might as well turn the current of the Niagara with a ladies fan as to prevent scheming and intrigue at Washington.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

The abuse of congressional power for pure partisan gain has become a specialty of the GOP.

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

I don't believe I'm psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they're thinking.

The only time producers fed me lines on 'Laguna Beach' were more fake phone calls or pickup scenes. We'd film for nine months out of the year, and then they would start cutting episodes together, and they would realize that they needed a specific scene.

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.

Specifically for 'Faults,' the three films I mention most as inspiration are 'Dogtooth,' 'Fargo' and 'Punch-Drunk Love.'