Suzy Kassem Quotes

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

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

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

The right can distort anything it wants.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Using vague, slippery or just meaningless language is not the same as lying: it's not intended to deceive so much as to preserve options, buy time, distance oneself from others, or just to sound like you're saying something instead of nothing.

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable to the opponent.... The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Selective truth

The Politician uses the language of diplomacy of which he is a master, and it consists in telling some of the truth without necessarily exhausting it.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

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

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.