Stephen King Quotes

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

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

Lying is one of the techniques of politicians .... They are economical with the truth.

If you want to convince somebody, make up a quote and attribute it to some renowned authority …. People are incredibly gullible.

The administration shaded the truth … I was part of the propaganda campaign.

The reality often times does not match the rhetoric. The rhetoric is very easy if you keep the reality secret.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax cut, and I, Donald Trump, won't benefit," he expects you to believe that. It doesn't matter that it's not true. It's he said it, you're supposed to believe it. And that's how he's run his entire administration. If he says it, that makes it true.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.