Quotes About Credibility

and Nazism is a problematic brand, discredited on so many levels, and that's an association we do not need. In fact it could really damage us.

La víctima, cuando siente que la autoridad la cuestiona, porque no se le cree de entrada, prefiere desistirse de la denuncia y renuncia a continuar el proceso jurídico. Le da la sensación de desprotección, de abandono, desamparo e impunidad, pues sabe que difícilmente probará el delito. En este país tiene más fuerza el dicho del agresor que el de la víctima.

Convinced that the isolationists, particularly Lindbergh, posed a major threat to the country and himself, Roosevelt and his supporters, assisted by a covert British intelligence operation, embarked on a campaign to destroy their credibility, influence, and reputations

After that, of course, though he recovered later, nobody was about to believe any tales he had to tell about little live men.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

could be stretching the truth

The way they both believed that as long as they told a lie long enough, to as many people as possible, that it should be believed because they said it. Community

Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.

The advantage of a free press is diminished when anyone can claim to be an objective journalist, then disseminate narratives conjured out of thin air to make others believe rubbish. The tactic is effective because people sitting at home or tapping away in a coffee shop often have no reliable way to determine whether the source of what they are reading is legitimate

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible.

Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.

I thought they were honest.' 'They are, but they're bankers, remember.

You know, I have a very bad reputation.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, and they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence is a joke nowadays.

Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was real or imagined? What mattered was that the detail seemed real, and that it was absolutely the best detail for the circumstance. That wasn't much of a theory, but it was all Ruth could truly commit herself to at the moment. It was time to retire that old lecture, and her penance was to endure the compliments of her former credo.

Even before she started talking to Franny, I could see how desperately important this woman's private unhappiness was to her, and how—in her mind—the only credible reaction to the event of rape was hers. That someone else might have responded differently to a similar abuse only meant to her that the abuse couldn't possibly have been the same.

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

The only purpose of economic forecasts is to give astrology a better image.

Vranyo is Russian for lying even when everyone knows that's what you're doing.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.