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Quotes About Manipulation

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy
~ George Orwell
My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.
~ Christiane Amanpour
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
~ Isaac Asimov
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
~ Eric Hoffer
Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.
~ Roy Hattersley
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
~ Ivan Panin
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
~ Andre Maurois
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
~ Paul Krugman
A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
~ Walter Scott
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
~ Frank Herbert
And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.
~ Mark Helprin
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
~ Victor Hugo
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
~ Anne Sexton
The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.
~ William Peter Blatty
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
~ Francis Parker Yockey
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
~ Thomas Sowell
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
~ Joss Whedon
Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.
~ Scott Peterson
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
~ David Stockman
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah
The media—stenographers to power.
~ Amy Goodman
..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
~ Edgar Allan Poe