Patricia Schroeder Quotes

“There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

Facts are a thing of the past. Americans may find it impossible to debate politics clearly because of a lack of agreement on basic matters of fact: that was certainly the case in this yea'rs Presidential election [2016]. And no one has taken more advantage of this than Donal;d Trump ... Trump and his talking heads didn't create this world. It is the result of decadews-long stategy devised devised by a numbe of public affairs practitioners who recognized that lies were the most potent weapoin in the fight against progress,

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.

In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're the Russian media, whether you're Breitbart, is that you manufacture lots of stuff that isn't true. The second step is that you claim that everyone is like this.

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

The assembly has witnessed how historical truth is established. Once an allegation is repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation. It is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.

There's no such thing as alternative facts.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

I suppose my attitude is what's most important is that we surround the president's misleading information with accurate information and help people know what is true 'cause I think the biggest trend of the Trump years is that people are increasingly confused about what is real and what is made-up.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

In the era of President Trump, we've gone from believing things that are 'true enough' to believing things that aren't true at all, and can be demonstrably proven so.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.