Alison Jackson Quotes

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.

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.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

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.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

All that glitters is not hovery.

All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.