Quotes About Manipulation

Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.