Quotes About Manipulation

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The media sells it and you live the role.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

You had help. He made you sick, or think you were, so he could control you. What does it say in the Bible, something about you'll get back the years the locust hath eaten? That's true for both of us. We lost a lot, but look what we have now.

She had been transformed into a lethal machine to gather information, and destroy anyone who interfered with her.

tienen el poder toman decisiones que crean pobreza. No lo hacen bien, no porque se equivoquen o por su ignorancia, sino a propósito.

Gli eventi chiave del passato non possono essere cambiati, ma le persone coinvolte si. Evanna mi aveva detto che se fosse tornata indietro e avesse ucciso Adolf Hitler, l'universo l'avrebbe rimpiazzato con qualcun'altro. Gli eventi fondamentali della seconda guerra mondiale si sarebbero verificati con le stesse modalità, scatenati però da una figura differente. [...] Quindi non potevo modificare il corso della storia intorno a me, ma potevo togliermi di mezzo.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

something about how all this could or would lead to totalitarianism. Her stomach sank.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything. You can control most of what anyone sees and knows. If you want to bury some piece of information, permanently, that's two seconds' work. If you want to ruin anyone, that's five minutes' work.

lets go of my ear and opens the front door. "Get out!" she screeches. "Get out of my house! I don't like you! I don't want you! I never loved you! Get the hell out of my house!" I freeze. I'm not sure of this game. My brain begins to spin with all the options of what Mother's real intentions may be. To survive, I have to think ahead. Father steps in front of me. "No!" he cries out. "That's

the media truly is a cabal of hyperpartisan, habitual liars who are destroying an entire industry from within.