Wilson Bryan Key > Quotes

“People generally can not believe themselves so easily manipulated and controllable. This is precisely why they are so easy to manpulate and contol.”
― Wilson Bryan Key

“Instead of worrying vainly about being liked, loved, or respected, individuals should concern themselves with what others expect of them. Expectations rule the future of relationships.”
― Wilson Bryan Key, The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere

“The search for truth should never cease, especially when someone perceives he or she has found it.”
― Wilson Bryan Key, The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere

“The study of competition and critics is the first rule of survival.”
― Wilson Bryan Key, The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere

“The reality, known, researched, and manipulated by the merchandising media, is perceptually complex. Simplistic seeing and getting are perceptual constructs custom-manufactured only for overprotected, nongrowth-oriented children, highly vulnerable to manipulation, who eventually become the adult victims in a media-dominated society. …They are usually fantasy-defined by media as the "in-crowd." Their reality is usually that of the losers, the used, the persuaded, the patsies, the appropriated.”
― Wilson Bryan Key, The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere