#manipulate

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. ↗

— John Sununu

#behavior #code #companies #corporate #economic

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. ↗

— George Orwell

#george-bush #ignorance #intelligence #manipulate #war

Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#accounts #again #asked #come #conclusion

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#any #audience #because #broadway #broadway shows

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#get #give #how #improve #just

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

#children #easily #hands-on #having #help

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#accumulate #data #declining #ends #ignorance

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#how #i #la #manipulates #music

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#event #every #happen #just #manipulate

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#does #empowers #knows #manipulates #sort