Iris Murdoch Quotes

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

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

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

The nature of politics is to subtract meaning from language.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

Among the calamities of war, may he justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

This is Capitol Hill where they never let facts get in the way of a good press release.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.