{"quotes":[{"text":"Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’.","author":"Tony Schwartz","tags":["alternative-facts","compulsive-liar","contradiction","contradictory","deceit","donald-trump","donald-trump","grandiosity","hyperbole","liar","lies","lying","lying-to-others","pathological-liar","self-aggrandizing","self-deception","truthful-hyperbole"],"id":34486,"author_id":"Tony+Schwartz"},{"text":"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["1984","2017","alternative-facts","belief","conciousness","contradiction","corruption","democracy","doublethink","government","hypnosis","lies","logic","memory","opinion","paradox","politics","reality","trump","truth","truthfulness","unconsciousness"],"id":36899,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["alternative-facts","deceit","deceit","deception","donald-trump","donald-trump","fact","facts","fraud","fraudulence","liar","lie","lies","lying","president-trump","president-trump","threat","threatening","threats","truth","truth","truth-telling"],"id":49533,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.","author":"Tony Schwartz","tags":["alternative-facts","believing-one-s-own-lies","compulsive-liar","compulsive-lying","deceit","donald-trump","donald-trump","lies-we-tell-ourselves","lying","lying-to-ourselves","lying-to-yourself","pathological-liar","self-deception","trump"],"id":154263,"author_id":"Tony+Schwartz"},{"text":"It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that’s exactly what psychological research finds (again and again). Repetition is one of the easiest and most widespread methods of persuasion. In fact it’s so obvious that we sometimes forget how powerful it is.","author":"Jeremy Bean","tags":["alternative-facts","liar","lying","repetition","truth"],"id":161696,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bean"},{"text":"The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.","author":"Cortney S. Warren","tags":["alternative-facts","lie","life-altering","reality","self-deception","truth","untruths"],"id":213302,"author_id":"Cortney+S.+Warren"},{"text":"Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.","author":"Chuck Todd","tags":["alternative-facts","falsehoods","lies","untruths"],"id":219913,"author_id":"Chuck+Todd"},{"text":"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.","author":"Daniel Patrick Moynihan","tags":["alternative-facts","free-speech","freedom","freedom-of-thought","lies","lies-politics"],"id":262505,"author_id":"Daniel+Patrick+Moynihan"},{"text":"Two half truths don't make one truth.","author":"Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr.","tags":["alternative-facts","half-truth","half-truths","liar","lying","misinformation","misleading"],"id":352662,"author_id":"Joseph+Julius+Bonkowski+Jr."},{"text":"Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?","author":"Alan Dapre","tags":["alternative-facts","fiction","ficts"],"id":381028,"author_id":"Alan+Dapre"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}