Ray LaHood Quotes

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

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

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

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

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.

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

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

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.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion and opinion brings on substance.

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

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Manipulation is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

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.

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

Repetition often becomes fact.

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

How easy is it to make people believe a lie, and hard it is to undo that work again!

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

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

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