Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

If you tell people something often enough, they will believe it.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Habit is ten times nature.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

Repetition often becomes fact.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

Sequencing is a really big factor in preparing for a team that you've faced several times. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the past against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you?

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.