Truth

"The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies." Mario Vargas Llosa

"This is going to be an unpopular truth, especially in the extremely delusional and deceived world we now live in. But the reality is this: none of what is going on outside is getting better. Nothing improves. Everything in our world feels fake. Our food is fake. Our news is fake. Our politicians are fake. Our history is fake. Even our financial system feels fake. And the people on our TV screens, on our phone screens — they’re lying to us, because everything is like a scripted movie. If you want to believe the absolute garbage that is being spoon-fed to us, then that is your prerogative. But I would hope that by now — five years into this very odd new world, this strange reality we’re living in — most of us have started to recognize that something deeper is going on. Something more sinister. Something more… spiritual, even, behind the scenes. I’ve reached a point where I literally don’t believe anything I see anymore. Nothing. Because after the last five years — maybe a bit more — it’s become clear to me that narratives are being pushed. Distractions are being manufactured. And in the end… we are watching a movie." ashleyhays2.0

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell

"A truth can only take effect when the recipient is ready for it. Therefore, it is not the fault of the truth that people are still so full of folly." Christian Morgenstern

"In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse." Edward Bernays

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." Henry Louis Mencken

"If people knew the true history of the vaccine industry, there would be a revolution overnight." Ben Tapper

"The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are." Harry Gordon Frankfurt

"The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose." Harry Gordon Frankfurt

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it" Leo Tolstoi

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions." Jonathan Swift

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect." Jonathan Swift

"In the United States, the majority takes on the task of supplying a multitude of ready-made opinions, freeing the individual from the necessity of forming his own." Alexis De Tocqueville