Mass Manipulation Quotes

#1. Our capacity as human beings for imagination and storytelling makes us exquisitely vulnerable to exploitation by those who understand the properties of ideological power.

David Smail

#2. I never considered myself more able than anybody because I had problems just like anybody else. When I practiced, I solved problems, like any of my fellow students. I looked at my own work, and looked ahead, with blinders, almost.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#3. This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.

Edward Bernays

#4. When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

A.J. Darkholme

#5. The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Aldo Leopold

#6. Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

C.J. Sansom

#7. People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

Pope Leo XIII

#8. Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.

Alan Cohen

#9. The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

Edward Bernays

#10. All things are possible; if something seems like it's not, it's only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.

A.J. Darkholme

#11. I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

Jonathan Nolan

#12. My God, how I want you," he whispered.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

Joyce Rachelle

#14. I was initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple weeks of filming because I got busted for possession of drugs, and Michael Biehn replaced me.

James Remar

#15. I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

Joel Salatin

#16. Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call living for the moment.

Robert Black

#17. Don't let life make you bitter.

Thomas Grant Bruso

#18. He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

John Stuart Mill

#19. These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Edward Snowden

#20. It frightened her to witness these mass ebbs and flows, to work at the cutting face of all that suggestion and manipulation.

Catherine O'Flynn

#21. You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Gary Hopkins

#22. When I say love, I mean love.

Sofia Navarro

#23. Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Sharon Salzberg