History Quotes / BelievingTheirOwnLies

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->''"The problem with telling a good lie is that the liar may become so caught up in it that she loses sight of the true, and she starts to believe the lie herself. [[MurderInc The Children]] hid their history so well that they took their own deceptions as reality. In doing so, [[{{Flanderization}} they forget the soul of what they were made to be.]]"''

-> If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because ''I'' believed it.

->''"You know what, Cartman? I believe you. I believe that you believe you helped write that joke. That's how people like you work! [[ItsAllAboutMe Your ego is so out of whack]] [[SelfServingMemory that it will do whatever it can to protect itself.]] And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they're awesome, when really, they're just douchebags!"''

->''"We humans are best defined not as the rational but as the self-deceiving animal."''

-->-- ''Kyle Broflovski'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

-> ''My god. You really do believe this."''

-> ''"To understand [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Almalexia]], you must first understand the value of fiction. [[WarriorPoet Vivec]] fancies himself the poet, but in truth, Ayem is the greater storyteller. Vivec knows the boundaries that separate fact from fiction. He knows them so well that's he's learned how to break them. He exists inside his verse, but recognizes the lies. The contradictions. He both does, and does not believe his own tales. [Almalexia] believes her tales implicitly. As does everyone else. Her capacity for deception appears limitless. She sows lies like a master gardener sows seeds, and the harvest of trust and adulation is breathtaking in scope."''

->[[WellIntentionedExtremist We were doing the right thing]]. 400 years ago, [[ChildMage these girls]] would have been burned at the stake. Forget 400 years ago, right now they'd be put on the talk show freak circus. I don't know which is worse. We were doing the right thing. [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Finding a use for their talents]].\\
[[HeelRealization Who am I kidding? Myself or the girls?]]

->[[WellIntentionedExtremist We were doing the right thing]]. 400 years ago, [[ChildMage these girls]] would have been burned at the stake. Forget 400 years ago, right now they'd be put on the talk show freak circus. I don't know which is worse. We were doing the right thing.[[PoweredByAForsakenChild Finding a use for their talents]].\\

->''"You know what, Cartman? I believe you. [[IBelieveThatYouBelieve I believe that you believe you helped write that joke.]] That's how people like you work! [[ItsAllAboutMe Your ego is so out of whack]] [[SelfServingMemory that it will do whatever it can to protect itself.]] And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they're awesome, when really, they're just douchebags!"''

->[[WellIntentionedExtremist We were doing the right thing]]. 400 years ago, [[ChildMage these girls]] would have been burned at the stake. Forget 400 years ago, right now they'd be put on the talk show freak circus. I don't know which is worse. We were doing the right thing. [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Finding a use for their talents]].
->[[HeelRealization Who am I kidding? Myself or the girls?]]

->''"You know what, Cartman? I believe you. I believe that you believe you helped write that joke. That's how people like you work! Your ego is so out of whack that it will do whatever it can to protect itself. And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they're awesome, when really, they're just douchebags!"''

->''"We humans are best defined not as the rational but as the self-deceiving animal"'' - Richard Paul

->''"I know that and you know that and the rest of Heaven knows that. Guess who doesn't know that. That's right. Yah-yah. Remember this, Raphael, remember it well because you'll be running the show up here if anything happens to me. Yah-yah believes his own propaganda, believes it implicitly. Every myth, every legend he's imagined has become the truth to him and he won't accept anything else. He'll drive out anybody whose thought patterns or beliefs differ from his. He hears what he wants to hear and nothing else. The Unbearable One believes what he wants to believe--and nothing else."''
-->-- '''Michael''', ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', on [[PhysicalGod Yahweh]]

'''Splinter: How many lies can you tell yourself, Saki?!

-->-- ''Kyle Broflovski'', ''WesternAnimstion/SouthPark''

->''"I believe that you believe you helped write that joke. That's how people like you work! Your ego is so out of whack that it will do whatever it can to protect itself. And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they're awesome, when really, they're just douchebags!"''

-->-- '''Michael''', ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', on [[PhysicalGod Yahweh]]

->The problem with telling a good lie is that the liar may become so caught up in it that she loses sight of the true, and she starts to believe the lie herself. [[MurderInc The Children]] hid their history so well that they took their own deceptions as reality. In doing so, [[{{Flanderization}} they forget the soul of what they were made to be.]]
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Assamite (Revised)''

-->--'''Ocelot''' on Huey Emmerich, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''