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.

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.

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.

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

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

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

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

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

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

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

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

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

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Screw the truth into men's minds.