Jeremy Bentham Quotes

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults lie. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults are bullies. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when an adult says something that's not true just to try to score political points.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

History’s most important lesson is that it has not been possible to make coercion compatible with the truth.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick.

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

The whole world is run on bluff.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.