Gaslighting Quotes

Accuse your enemy of what you are doing as you are doing to create confusion.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

When you meet a lot of people and you date somebody, or you're just in a relationship with friends, lovers, business, or whatever it may be, there are people that are just toxic to you, and you don't even know it yourself.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

When men act up by being degrading, dismissive, condescending, shut off, or sullen, that can often dumbfound you as a woman and get you off balance. At that point, you can feel and look like a deer in the headlights, which makes you even more vulnerable to such a man's next volley of vitriol.

It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.

When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

Guys like to gaslight us, and it's not cool. And it happens so much; it's happened to me in relationships. It's happened to me where I have been cheated on, and I felt so sad and angry, like it wasn't my fault, but that was because the person was gaslighting me into thinking it was my fault.

Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.

Oh my gosh, I mean, I've had many experiences of men calling me psycho.