Quotes About Influence

We are seeing ever more frequent ethical breaches, such as Cambridge Analytica's illicit harvesting of millions of psychological profiles through Facebook and the company's use of these to influence electoral results.

Denn auch Wörter sind magisch. Sie können die ganze Welt enthalten.

cunt   The worst thing humans can be called is their point of origin. This says a lot.

se la nostra ansia è in parte un prodotto della cultura, allora possiamo modificarla cambiando le nostre reazioni nei confronti di quella stessa cultura.

Remember, during your mission, never to become influenced or corrupted. The humans are an arrogant species, defined by violence and greed. They have taken their home planet, the only one they currently have access to, and placed it on the road to destruction. They have created a world of divisions and categories and have continually failed to see the similarities among themselves. They have developed technology at a rate too fast for human psychology to keep up

Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?

We've all heard stories that have been pointless but still kept us engaged and excited because of the person's body language and voice qualities. Afterward

For all the gifts of computer technology, if its power goes underappreciated, it can hijack the brain.

Montrose could have simply forbidden him to read such things. Atticus knew other sons whose fathers had done that, who'd thrown their comic books and Amazing Stories collections into the trash. But Montrose, with limited exceptions, didn't believe in book-banning. He always insisted he just wanted Atticus to think about what he read, rather than imbibing it mindlessly, and Atticus, if he were being honest, had to admit that was a reasonable goal.

Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith

Omnes mundum facimus.

The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the herd makes a move to bolt, they all move.

These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America's ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what's left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left.

You can tell a lot about a country by how boring its media is. If you turn on the TV and immediately feel like going to sleep, it generally means the political class feels secure.

TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That

One political party may be preferable to another. A news channel, though, can't be a vehicle for a political party and be anything but a bad thing.

Donald Trump, if elected, would find a way to turn being the president into a moneymaking operation. Sanders

in less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school—the candidate beams. What

Who we hate just depends on what channel we watch.

Banks like Goldman remain largely shielded from the impact of public opinion because while the public's only link to power is through the clumsy and highly imperfect avenue of elections, a bank of this size has a whole network of intimate connections with direct access to policy. In

Does anyone seriously believe that powerful people would allow truly dangerous ideas to be broadcast on TV? The news today is a reality show where you're part of the cast: America vs. America, on every channel.

He was a walking cut corner, a thumb on the scale of American history. The