Misleading communication Quotes

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.

Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.

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

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

Anything that causes you to doubt, to raise either objections or just concerns about it - and they always put the information right at the bottom of the screen so you can't really read it - every time you see a company do that, the ad becomes less effective. The communication becomes less effective.

A recent study found that people lie more when they are texting. Yeah, especially that one lie: "Sorry, just got your text!

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.