Alexander Herzen Quotes

It is easier to mislead many men than one.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

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

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

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

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.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

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.

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

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

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

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The right can distort anything it wants.

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

People are dumb, People are dumb, Promise ‘em peace and kingdom come. / People are dopes, People are dopes, Play on their peeves, play on their hopes. / Make ‘em feel mad, Make ‘em feel mad, Everything’s lousy, everything’s bad. / Make ‘em afraid, Make ‘em afraid, Show ‘em they’re dupes, tricked and betrayed. / Then if they bite, Then if they bite, You will have fools to fight your fight.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

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

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.

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.

The primitive simplicity of their [the masses'] minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.