Quotes About Deception

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The great mass of people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Le Jeuden, des Dreugen, Au Frauden

and in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

World deception growing apace.

È più facile ingannare le masse con una fandonia esagerata che con una piccola bugia.

At first I was quite surprised when I realized how little time was necessary for this great evil power within the state to produce a certain belief among the public. In doing so, the genuine will and convictions of the public were often completely misconstrued. It took the press only a few days to transform some ridiculously trivial matter into an issue of national importance-while vital problems were completely ignored or hidden away from public view.

Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance. -- Mein Kampf , Chapter 10

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

Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why? -- uncited source

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

It is one of the many paradoxes of life he has come to accept, that learning the truth often requires acts of deception.

This is only a hotel because they charge you $40 to stay. There's no furniture and no soap. The water comes in a prostated, rusty dribble. The bath has been used to interrogate sheep. The towel is a bar mat. There's a blanket, a chipped tin teapot and a carpet that looks like tar applied with a comb.

According to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "She was duller than himself, and consequently did not find out that he was so.

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.