41 Quotes About Spin

Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.

Life is a circle. It spins you around.

You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

As the campaign progressed, Armistead remembered what his parents had taught him: If you never tell a lie, you won't have to remember what you said.He subsequently developed a perverse respect for politicians who had mastered the art of spin. It was a skill to produce an answer having nothing to do with the question.He didn't think he was crafty enough to do it.

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

Society cannot function if it is every man for himself. By definition, civilization cannot survive that. Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.