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Quotes About Manipulation

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
~ Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder
A big lie is more plausible than truth.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path
~ Marshall Fritz
The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.
~ Neal Shusterman
If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.
~ Roy H. Williams
I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
~ Terry Gross
You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.
~ Cee Lo Green
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
~ Christy Turlington
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.
~ David Limbaugh
In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.
~ Dean Koontz
Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.
~ Dean Koontz
You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.
~ Dennis Lehane
There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.
~ Don Henley
Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.
~ Gao Xingjian
The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.
~ George Orwell
The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
~ George R. R. Martin
The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.
~ Henry Rollins
The truth can be made up if you know how.
~ Jane Wagner
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
~ Jeff Greenfield
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lie told well is just as good as the truth.
~ Jonah Lehrer
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
~ Mitt Romney