Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

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

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax cut, and I, Donald Trump, won't benefit," he expects you to believe that. It doesn't matter that it's not true. It's he said it, you're supposed to believe it. And that's how he's run his entire administration. If he says it, that makes it true.

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.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

The press can't write the kind of things they write, which are lies.The stories are fabrications and false. And the only thing I say is hopefully, hopefully, our patriotic movement will overcome this terrible deception.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.

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

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends