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Falsehoods Quotes

Sharp lines on deception, media, and public trust.

These falsehoods quotes take direct aim at deception in media, from a pointed line distinguishing unethical Advertising's falsehoods from ethical advertising's use of truth to deceive, to a broader critique of a press that has 'uttered falsehoods so long' its credibility wears thin.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

Quotes by William Cobbett

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Quotes by Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.

Quotes by Pamela Meyer

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's...

Quotes by Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Advertising Quotes

I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

Quotes by Karen Handel

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Quotes by John Stuart Mill

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Quotes by Hesiod

It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of...

Quotes by Glenn Greenwald

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Quotes by Anne Sullivan

Age Quotes

Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from its half-truths. It is fighting for its...

Quotes by Alissa Quart

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Quotes by Alexander Pope

Frequently Asked Questions

What connects these falsehoods quotes?
Each one examines how falsehoods operate in public life, through advertising, the press, or comforting beliefs people repeat without questioning, rather than treating falsehood as simple lying.
What does the advertising quote argue?
It draws a sharp, almost paradoxical distinction: unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public, while ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public just the same, questioning whether the difference matters in practice.
Why do people search for falsehoods quotes?
Often for media criticism or arguments about misinformation, since "falsehoods" carries a more formal, deliberate weight than casual words like lies or myths.
What does the quote about truth and persecution mean?
It argues that the comforting idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is itself a falsehood people repeat until it sounds true, even though experience often contradicts it.
Is press credibility a theme in this collection?
Yes, one quote criticizes hirelings of the press for uttering falsehoods so consistently that their reporting eventually loses credibility altogether, a media-trust theme worth pairing with our Advertising quotes.

One quote goes further, calling the belief that 'truth always triumphs over persecution' itself a pleasant falsehood repeated more than proven. For more, see our Always and Being quotes.