“Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.” WayFirstsActionLawNumbersKnownStudentsSpeechBehaviorConstitutionStrategyBottomDespiteDistinctionAmendmentsManipulateFirst AmendmentInconsequential Author:Stanley Fish
“Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.” AttitudeObjectsDependsIndustryHabitBehaviorDollarsAdvertisingTeaConsumersAddressesConsumerismManipulateCokeProspectsOverconsumptionImprobableDrinkersBehavior And AttitudeAdvertising Industry Book:Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy Source: Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
“Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.” NeedsRealEconomicBehaviorBenefitsExecutivesManipulateDividends Author:Stephen Covey
“Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.” PeopleWellsMeanMadeGuyTurnsSocialBrainBehaviorProofReactionsTendenciesGoing AwayManipulateOther GuysSyndromesIdioticBiddingAuctions Author:Charlie Munger
“Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.” TryingBehaviorCreatingTerrorismTerroristPsychologicalUncertaintyManipulationDivisionWarfareManipulatePsychological WarfareCreating Fear Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” MenWorldDoeMatterChangeTechnologyStudySubjectsEssentialsBehaviorPhysicsManipulationYieldManipulateSubject MatterNature Of Man Author:Pope Paul VI
“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.” ShouldTryingPoliticalNextEnergyViewsCompanyEconomicTaxesBehaviorCorporateCodeOwnersEfficiencyRevenueManipulateBankersJetPersonal BehaviorEconomic Efficiency Author:John Sununu
“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.” MeanWholeCertainSocialConsciousnessAttitudeInformationEmotionalProductsCommunicationIndustryHabitBehaviorIntellectualPatternsEntertainmentReactionsProducersConsumersLatterFalsehoodManipulateIrresistibleImmuneOutputSocial SystemsMeans Of CommunicationEmotional Reactions Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldHeartLittlesPersonsEnoughFactsHandsFightingBehaviorCapableTricksNurseManipulateHelplessnessAdmitting Author:Deb Caletti