Misleading Tactics Quotes

It is easier to mislead many men than one.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me.

They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation

The more you are in public life, the more you wonder at the credulity of the average human being.

I believe we have been fleeced.

If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.

For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.

Letting people into WTO who intend to cheat is obviously a mistake.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin.

When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.

If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power. If your organization is small, do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more that it does. If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.