Quotes About Manipulation

I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

It's very easy to colour the thoughts of people in the age of social media. If you are being bombarded with some lies constantly, you tend to believe it's true.

I used to touch up my pictures on the computer and send them to friends. I would change colours, the design, and stuff like that.

I can't burp on command.

The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

The media is complicit in fear mongering.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

Let's face it - Donald Trump is a very, very good con man.

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

You know, my concern is that even if Cambridge Analytica has dissolved as a company, its capabilities haven't.