AV Club interview http://www.avclub.com/article/stephen-colbert-13970, (25 January 2006)
Context: Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?
“France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.”
2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)
“Open your heart.
Tear it apart.”
Open Your Heart
Imagine Our Love (2007)
Source: Confessions of an Heiress (2004), p. 53
“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.”
Source: So You've Been Publicly Shamed
