Quotes About Manipulation

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is carried on by the departments, chancelleries and General Staffs. Parliament itself is given up to talk for the special purpose of fooling the 'common people.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.

All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie.

Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.