Tammy Bruce Quotes

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

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.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.