Paul Krugman Quotes

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

The more you are in public life, the more you wonder at the credulity of the average human being.

Trump manipulates the fearful by promising that he will use his fraudulent deal-making prowess to protect and take care of his supporters.

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.

One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.