Quotes About Manipulation

At the very least, our willingness to ban our emotional manipulation of others produces an extraordinary lightness and peace of mind. For what at first seems like surrender or inaction ends up restoring an almost forgotten sense of vitality and enthusiasm; All that scheming, it turns out, took up much more time and effort than we thought, energy which is now available for new and more satisfying interests.

With this new 'megatechnics' the dominant minority will create a uniform, all-enveloping, super-planetary structure, designed for automatic operation. Instead of functioning actively as an autonomous personality, man will become a passive, purposeless, machine-conditioned animal whose proper functions, as technicians now interpret man's role, will either be fed into the machine or strictly limited and controlled for the benefit of de-personalized, collective organizations

The great secret of centralized power was secrecy itself. That holds of all totalitarian states down to our own day.

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

Who knows more about the usage of personal data than Cambridge Analytica?

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

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

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.

The 'vote for me because the other guy is scary,' nana-nana-poo-poo stuff I just find useless.

Some of the most successful businesses succeed by exploiting their users.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.