Attribution Quote by Winston Smith

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

— William O. Douglas

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

— Stanley Baldwin

I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation…

— Arne Tiselius

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.”

— Bryant McGill

“The truth offends foolish people because they are always too busy deceiving themselves. They think insults, slander, and vulgarity are intelligence, and believe rudeness,…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever…

— Harry Frankfurt

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

— Daniel Webster

“We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.”

— Timothy Snyder

“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best…

— R. Scott Bakker