Quotes About Manipulation

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

My dear, treacherous mother, " he breathed. "What have you done?

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.