Quotes About Manipulation

Another truth in life. People change when you have something they want.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us

Pour livrer une guerre contre le Liban, il ne suffit pas de déstabiliser le pays pour le plonger dans la violence, il faut aussi déstabiliser l'opinion publique internationale pour lui faire accepter, voire souhaiter, les bombardements et la mort.

The 20th century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

No sophism is too gross to delude minds distempered by party spirit.

Metternich told lies all the time, and never deceived any one; Talleyrand never told a lie and deceived the whole world.

You may make as many fair speeches as you choose, but you lie.

If you don't wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

In politics, you must never forget that everything is analysed.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Fake News has become a matter of concern in the country.

Fox News is garbage.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.