False Narrative Quotes

Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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.

Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

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

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit.

Our Pentagon has a reputation for not telling the truth.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.

False history gets written every day.

History is the lies of the victors.