#mislead

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behave #better #citizens #could #dark

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#could #course #events #generation #great

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#beginning #between #could #immediately #misleading

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#broke #consideration #elemental #leading #means

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#am #believes #boring #dangers #death

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ↗

— Russell Baker

#almost #always #best #dead #educated

I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise. ↗

— James Blunt

#am #anyone #fun #god #had

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#avoid #betray #confidence #controversial #had

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today. ↗

— Bob Filner

#areas #been #big #california #case

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts. ↗

— Robert Irvine

#exaggerate #experiences #facts #family #house