Quotes About Manipulation

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good?

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.