“The most effective propaganda is a mixture of truths, half truths, and lies.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
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Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist
Concerning right-wing radio shortly before the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, in NOW (17 December 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript351_full.html <br class="br">Context: On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths — half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
Robert Crumb (1943) American cartoonist
"Simon Hattenston talks to Robert Crumb" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/07/robertcrumb.comics, The Guardian, 7 March 2005.
Charles Stross book Iron Sunrise
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 5, “Another Day, Another Editorial” (p. 71)
“901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
This is printed in some editions as: Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.”
Ben Elton book This Other Eden
This Other Eden (1993)
“It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 134)
“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel
“The truth lied
And lies divide
Lies divide”
Leslie Feist (1976) Canadian musician
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)