“the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe”

“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”

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

“Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.”

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

“We know how to tell many believable lies,
But also, when we want to, how to speak the plain truth.”

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

“Put simply, I want to teach people in this country to tell lies from the truth and to tell bad from good. … This is what our people still cannot do.”

“Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,” said Tenkswa-Tawa. “That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.”

“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.”