Jim Starlin Quotes

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

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

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

... a trick speech, calculated to lead the American people into war and ruin.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

Every reason that you have given for going to war has turned out not to be true. Why did you really go to war?

Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

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

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

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

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

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.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.