Kevin Sorbo Quotes

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

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

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.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.

A falsehood, to have its full and lasting effect, must contain a fraction of a grain of truth.

Repetition often becomes fact.

It is easier to mislead many men than one.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

We're awash in toxic memes right now. One of the most toxic, I think because it enables so many others, is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative, that there's no such thing as establishing the truth of anything. Your truth, my truth, we're all entitled to our own truths. That's pernicious, it's attractive to many people, and it is used to exploit people in all sorts of nefarious ways. The truth really does matter.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.