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Quotes About Manipulation

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
~ Nalini Singh
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.
~ Phyllis Bottome
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
~ Orson Scott Card
When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
~ Roland Joffe
How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.
~ Suzy Kassem
It was so useful to lie with the truth.
~ Tanith Lee
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
~ Tom Clancy
I know every politician spins the truth a little.
~ Zach Braff
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
~ Walter Scott, Marmion
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
~ George Orwell, 1984
Half a truth is often a great lie.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right.
~ J.R. Rim
Trust is a word created by liars.
~ Christian Julch
A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.
~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.
~ Bianca Scardoni, Inception
A misleading impression not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
~ Sir Robert Armstrong
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
~ Wole Soyinka
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
~ Diane Abbott
Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.
~ DaShanne Stokes
Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.
~ DaShanne Stokes
A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
~ Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow