Quotes About Manipulation

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is paradoxical.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

The media is so powerful.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

The media is controlled.

If 'Crazywala' is about the state of politics in our country, 'Nawab Basha' is about how money controls most of our lives.

Technology is like the 666 because it controls us.

What's so great about 'Gone Girl' is the conversations it provokes.

I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.