Raoul Peck Quotes

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you

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

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

Those of our people who do not study history can be duped into believing anything.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

Nothing overshadows truth so completely as authority.

Suspect power more than vice.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed-upon myth of its conquerors.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

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,

You can't believe everything you hear on the Internet.