Darrell Hammond Quotes

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

Every edit is a lie.

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.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

The right can distort anything it wants.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

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

The administration shaded the truth … I was part of the propaganda campaign.

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.

The unfathomable isn’t something our media masters can tolerate. An unsurpassing self-assurance in their own moral and intellectual wisdom isn’t allowed to be punctured by the complex inexplicability of the real world. So to maintain the patina of omniscience they must fit the story into one of their narratives.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.