Suzanne Collins Quotes

Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

Let's talk about real fake news. If this were about a religion or if this were about a Muslim ban, then how come the largest Muslim nation on the planet...Indonesia, exactly, isn't listed?

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.