Truth Manipulation Quotes

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

When you revise history, you lose it.

History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

While I worry about an erosion of truth, I don’t think people want to live in a world where you can only say things that tech companies decide are 100 percent true.

Official truth is not actual truth.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Reality has been so politicized such that people truly believe, mostly, that there are two versions of reality: a conservative and a liberal version. In my mind, there's only one version of reality and then those who lie about it. Much as in a court of law.

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

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?