Post-Truth Quotes

We're awash in toxic memes right now. One of the most toxic, I think because it enables so many others, is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative, that there's no such thing as establishing the truth of anything. Your truth, my truth, we're all entitled to our own truths. That's pernicious, it's attractive to many people, and it is used to exploit people in all sorts of nefarious ways. The truth really does matter.

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.

Facts just don’t mean anything anymore. It’s who shouts the loudest and repeats it the most.

When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

There's no truth anymore.

There's no such thing as alternative facts.

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.

I suppose my attitude is what's most important is that we surround the president's misleading information with accurate information and help people know what is true 'cause I think the biggest trend of the Trump years is that people are increasingly confused about what is real and what is made-up.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

We are struggling with the global war on the truth. And if what we used to think of as the domain of the Soviets, the kind of celebration of lies and press as propaganda, that now we realize is not something that is unique to the Soviet state. It's within ourselves as well here in the West.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in.

I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.