Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

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

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

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

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

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.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

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

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