Michael Ende Quotes

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

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

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.

I'm very good at manipulation.

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.

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

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

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

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

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

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.