Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling 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.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

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

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

It is a world of lies that permeates the Left

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

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.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

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

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

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.