Quotes About Manipulation

I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.

But everyone, including ethnic minorities, should be worried about how anti-racism is becoming weaponized across the political spectrum - how a lot of people in politics think it's a good idea to exaggerate the problem of racism.

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

I think people just, when you say something in an interview, they really like to make it their own story rather than, you know they like to spin it off, almost.

I love my brother. But I'm not a yo-yo. He can't just keep spinning me in and out of his life.

So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

In true demagogic fashion, Trump bypassed the head and spoke directly to the gut, to the biles and bubbling acids of raw emotion.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

We want playmates we can own.