--- title: "1 Falsehoods Quotes By Robert Jay Lifton" description: "1 Falsehoods quotes by Robert Jay Lifton. Plus more from Robert Jay Lifton and more Falsehoods sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/robert-jay-lifton-13917_believe_donald-trump-both-disbelieves-and-believ_1580314.jpg" --- > [Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama was not born in the United States - he's crazy like a fox in manipulating it because it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/donald-trump-both-disbelieves-and-believes-in-falsehoods-so-that-when/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/robert-jay-lifton-13917_believe_donald-trump-both-disbelieves-and-believ_1580314.jpg) ## Other authors on Falsehoods - [Samuel Johnson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehoods/samuel-johnson/) ## More by Robert Jay Lifton > [As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/as-a-kid-i-was-fascinated-with-sports-and-i-loved-sports-more-than/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels have economic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/there-s-more-and-more-recognition-that-a-carbon-economy-is-dangerous/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/i-struggled-with-each-of-these-studies-and-i-was-uncertain-about-what/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/and-i-was-troubled-by-the-heavy-handed-prose-of-so-much/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/donald-trump-gives-the-impression-that-he-would-like-to-govern-by/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/there-are-people-who-believe-that-there-should-be-a-standard/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/one-reason-that-i-embarked-on-a-study-of-nazi-doctors-was-that-in/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [We have a duty to warn on an individual basis if we are treating someone who may be dangerous to herself or to others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/we-have-a-duty-to-warn-on-an-individual-basis-if-we-are-treating/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [“The ditties blend Japanese popular culture themes of saccharine, childlike goodness and viciously detached sadism, which Aum drew upon as it tapped the barely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/the-ditties-blend-japanese-popular-culture-themes-of-saccharine/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/the-scientists-who-made-the-atomic-bomb-are-in-my-sense-people-with-a/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/psychologically-nothing-is-darker-or-more-menacing-or-harder-to/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/that-is-we-are-bombarded-by-all-kinds-of-images-and-influences-and-we/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/donald-trump-doesn-t-have-clear-contact-with-reality-though-i-m-not/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/the-language-of-the-totalist-environment-is-characterized-by-the/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) > [People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jay-lifton/people-with-what-we-call-mental-illness-can-indeed-serve-well-and/) [Robert Jay Lifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jay-lifton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falsehoods/robert-jay-lifton/#itemlist", "name": "1 Falsehoods Quotes By Robert Jay Lifton", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama was not born in the United States - he's crazy like a fox in manipulating it because it gave him his political entrée onto the national stage. 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