Cass Sunstein Quotes

The number one rule of today's marketing – the key secret of those who seek to control your beliefs and habits in order to take your money, your votes, your time or whatever else it is they desire from you – is to always keep in mind that nobody really believes they can be manipulated.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

In considering economic behavior, humor is especially important for, needless to say, much of that behavior is infinitely ridiculous.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

People will do odd things if you give them money.

People only respond to fear.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

I don't like people that try to psyche other people out.

I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.