Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are most convenient to that end and will seek to justify them by the most plausible arguments they are able to devise.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!

The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.