Martha Gellhorn Quotes

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

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

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

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.

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

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

I keep reading between the lies.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.