Libba Bray Quotes

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

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

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

All you have to do is anesthetize the masses by telling them they’re an elite, that they’ve got a mission, that they’re making history, that they’re fulfilling their destiny and fighting for a better world — and they swallow it like lambs — even when a guttersnipe says it.

Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

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.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

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

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And so hope lies in the fact that little by little, even if the American people can be fooled, even if they continue to be fooled in the 2004 presidential election, they will gradually learn, as they have learned - for instance, in the Vietnam War and turned against the Vietnam War.

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion