Misinformation Quotes

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
― Seneca, Natural Questions

“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
― Garry Kasparov

“The Dark Forces have created countless troll farms to relentlessly spam the Internet with their agendas. Trillions of fake accounts are used to create disinformation, create a fake majority opinion about topics, bully people who are putting out information the Dark Forces don’t like, and get people arguing with each other to create negative energy.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Disinformation is duping.
Misinformation is tricking.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The masses are not interested in the truth… they want to be entertained.”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Gulab

“In this era of fake news and paid news artificial intelligence is more and more used as a political tool to manipulate and dictate common people, through big data, biometric data, and AI analysis of online profiles and behaviors in social media and smart phones. But the days are not far when AI will also control the politicians and the media too.”
― Amit Ray

“To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’ Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.”
—Letter to John Norvell, 14 June 1807
[Works 10:417--18]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Works of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible, Autobiography and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), with Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary ... more.

“The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane — or put your children on a plane — if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.”
― Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be

“Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through “asexuality” (“without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs”). Each of them split in half: “Asexual organisms reproduce by fission (splitting in half).”
― Ray Comfort, Nothing Created Everything

“This monograph by Special Agent Ken Lanning (1992) is merely a guide for those who may investigate this phenomenon, as the title indicates, and not a study. The author is a well known skeptic regarding cult and ritual abuse allegations and has consulted on a number of cases but to our knowledge has not personally investigated the majority of these cases, some of which have produced convictions. p179
[refers to Lanning, K. V. (1992)
Investigator's guide to allegations of "ritual" child abuse. Quantico, VA: National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.]”
― Pamela Sue Perskin, Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America

“Misinformation is the side effect of being uninformed.”
― Mohith Agadi

“The rate of refusal of recommended childhood vaccinations is a commentary on the failing educational and public health systems in the US. There are families in many countries that beg for access to vaccines, while in the United States, vaccine privilege has created opportunities for malignant misinformation and sometimes willful ignorance.”
― Ashely Alker, MD, 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them

“when humans don’t understand why something happens, we make it up.
Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west? That’s the direction of the Greek god Helios’s chariot.
How did zebras get stripes? A zebra got burned walking through a baboon’s fire.
How did the novel coronavirus spread so quickly? 5G towers.”
― Ashely Alker, MD, 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them

“At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer to our national problems -- the answer for all the problems of the world -- comes down to a single word. That word is 'education.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

“...the true assassin of a viral lie is not rigorous fact-checking. It is, ultimately, fatigue.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“Frick my stupid baka life”
― Frans Kafka

“When a widely held opinion is glaringly at odds with the truth, we are bond in honesty, I think, to attack it.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“We are living through an absolutely crucial juncture in human history, when the externalities of our current economic system are coming home to roost. These include misinformation (courtesy of 'Big Tech'), global heating (thanks to 'Big Oil'), and wealth inequality (exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies). Together, these interlocking crises are buffeting our political institutions, threatening to envelop them in a vortex of partisanship and chronic instability. Looming over these challenges is the threat of societal disruption from AI and the imminent collapse of a rules-based international order. At such a time, what we need more than ever is a big vision, a narrative to help people make sense of the bewildering world we live in, and political courage. Both things that seem distinctly lacking from our political class.”
― Matt Hay, Reforesting Scotland 72: Autumn/Winter 2025

“Today is the best time to confront the lies that your yesterday is telling you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“...the internet has profoundly decentralised propaganda.”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

“Labels divide. Shared needs unite. A country does not heal through louder shouting. It heals through deeper listening.”
― Glenn A. Maltais

“It’s widely acknowledged by many pundits that we no
longer live in an age of news, but of narrative as news. But what if this is old news? What if things have always been this way?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

(Misattributed to George Orwell)”
― Selwyn Duke, Controlling thoughts, words, and deeds: the Matthew Shepard Act, "hate-crime" legislation, is supposedly needed to stop violence against people with ... Act): An article from: The New American

“Conspiracy theories taught us to doubt the truth. Artificial intelligence is teaching us to doubt everyone, everything—and reality itself.”
― Lawrence Nault

“You're not under attack when others tell you facts that you disagree with.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Bet you're happy to be out of New York anyways. What with all those rats."

"Excuse me?"

"There are more rats in New York than there are people. That's why everyone's sick all the time. The rats."

"I'm not sure I-"

"Well, I'm sure you know that New Yorkers have historically had terrible oxygen flow to their brains. That's why the population is so dumb. For years, scientists couldn't figure out why, until finally they realized what it was." Caleb paused meaningfully.

Shannon ventured weakly, "The rats?"

"Exactly." The rats.”
― Caro Claire Burke

“Caleb was in love with Shannon. That's what he had told me the night before. He was in love, truly in love, for the first time in his life. At that point in his little monologue, I did flinch, I'll admit that. Not like he noticed. He was too busy landing the final blow. "I'm moving to New York," he said in the darkness, practically breathless with excitement. "I'm starting a new life. She really challenges me, you know? She pushes me on my ideas. Our conversations are incredible. Did you know, Natalie, that the rat thing isn't true?"

"Yes," I said softly. "I know that the rat thing isn't true."

He paused. "Why didn't you say anything, then?"

I didn't answer.”
― Caro Claire Burke

“Facts don't matter to people comforted by lies.”
― DaShanne Stokes