Alex Gibney Quotes

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

Trump followed Fox's lead. He parroted what he heard on TV. He lied and lied, but rather than suffer the consequences, his lies were excused and supported and even celebrated by his media enablers.

It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

There's an apparent freedom, an apparent liberty of access to everything, but you can't use it because it's too much. Everything is at the same level. You even have fake news. You have to go through fake news to make up your mind. Facts and lies are treated as equal. There are even people who are against the idea of climate change.

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

The Internet has enriched my own life immeasurably.

Women lie, men lie, numbers don't.

The thing that Wikipedia focuses on is not truth nor facts, it's reliable, verifiable information. And what we would say is that as the world's consensus changes about what is reliable, verifiable information, the information for us will change too. […] If Wikipedia had been around a couple hundred years ago we probably would have had an article that says that the Sun revolves around the Earth because that was what we understood to be true. […] So we're not really in the business of truth or facts, we're in the business of what is known, and what has been determined through consensus—scientific consensus or otherwise. And I think that that actually provides some clarity on how to understand what information you're looking at.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few months. We cannot rely anymore on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. People are making up their own truths.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

It's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.