Quotes About Manipulation

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

The truth is the best propaganda.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.