Distortion of Reality Quotes

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

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

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

[In a political debate:] I'm afraid those are facts that are not facts.

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

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

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

I say it's unprecedented. Have we seen a president or an administration decide what's going to be fake news and what they dismiss in terms of answering? Because there has been fake news before. All of us have gone through that.

You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

Efforts to conceal the truth will not and do not negate the facts.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Lying is a widespread habit among the Arabs and they have a low idea of truth.... The Arab has no scruples about lying if by it he obtains his objective.... He is more interested in feeling than facts, in conveying an impression than in giving a report.