Disinformation Quotes

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories - Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.

There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

Accuse your enemy of what you are doing as you are doing to create confusion.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.

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

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

The primitive simplicity of their [the masses'] minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

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.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.