Kanye West Quotes

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

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

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

It is very dangerous to write the truth in war, and the truth is very dangerous to come by.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Our Pentagon has a reputation for not telling the truth.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form.

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.