Stephen Colbert Quotes

Repetition often becomes fact.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A truth does not become greater through repetition.

If you tell people something often enough, they will believe it.

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

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

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.

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

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is . . . what you get other people to believe.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

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.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists on the mind of the general public.