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Monday 4th of May 2026

Post-truth [P]ost-truth amounts to a form of ideological supremacy, whereby its practitioners are tying to compel someone to believe in something whether there is good evidence for or not. And this a recipe for political domination. Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth © 2019 Kwiple.com
Post-truth [P]ost-truth is not so much a claim that truth does not exist  as that facts are subordinate to our political point of view. The Oxford definition focuses on “what” post-truth is: the idea that feelings sometimes matter more than facts. But just as important is the next question, which is why  this ever occurs. Someone does not dispute an obvious or easily confirmable fact for no reason; he does so when it is to his or her advantage. Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth © 2019 Kwiple.com
Post-truth Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. … Post-truth wears away the rule of law and invites a regime of myth. Timothy Snyder, New York Times, January 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Post-truth Post-truth refers to blatant lies being routine across society, and it means that politicians can lie without condemnation. This is different from the cliché that all politicians lie and make promises they have no intention of keeping – this still expects honesty to be the default position. In a post-truth world, this expectation no longer holds. Kathleen Higgins, “Post-truth: a guide for the perplexed,” Nature, November 28, 2016 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Truth Early in this [Trump] administration, it was reasonable to say that plausibility was the new truth: The mere existence of a believable opposing claim was sufficient to rebut a balanced assessment of the totality of evidence. But when skepticism is a whole system of thought, assertion is the new truth. A claim no longer needs to be believable. It simply needs to be made. Greg Weiner, New York Times, September 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Truth Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde © 2023 Kwiple.com
Truth I think we know that the most reliable path to truth is through communication of like-minded and disparate thinkers who devote serious time to trying to get the truth  — and there's no algorithm for that. Daniel C. Dennett, New York Times, August 25, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Truth  If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom. Rex Tillerson, VMI commencement address, May 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Truth If you want to speak truth to power  – I'm going to go out on a limb here and say – you have to include the truth part. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Oct. 5, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Truth [I]n a feat of Trump-inspired marketing, Ms Daniels announced this month that she would launch a new, limited-edition line of perfume. The name of the fragrance? Truth. Financial Times, August 28, 2018, on Stormy Daniels © 2018 Kwiple.com
Truth It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding © 2017 Kwiple.com
Truth The issue for me is not to learn how to adjust to living in a world in which facts do not matter, but instead to stand up for the notion of truth and learn how to fight back. Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth © 2019 Kwiple.com
Truth Nobody with a terminal illness goes from the United States to Europe for a piece of Bavarian cream pie and then when they get there and they don't have it he says, “Ah, I'll just have some coffee.” There's no truth to that. Jerry, in the “The Soup Nazi” episode of Seinfeld © 2015 Kwiple.com
Truth Once any string of words is considered as true as any other, any course of action comes to seem as legitimate as any other. Yascha Mounk, New York Times, December 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Truth Post-truth is pre-fascism. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century © 2017 Kwiple.com
Truth There's no proof of anything, there very well could be. Donald Trump, acknowledging that there is no evidence for his claims that Middle Easterners are among the Honduran migrants heading toward the U.S. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Truth Truth does not change, only our awareness of it. Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Truth The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.  attrubuted to Gloria Steinem © 2016 Kwiple.com
Truth We don't have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true. Facebook, defending its decision to not take down a video created by Trumpists that depicts Nancy Pelosi as drunk and that its fact checkers labeled as “false” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Truth Well, I'm not sure. Jeff Sessions, who claimed during his confirmation hearing that he doesn't believe in religious tests, responding to the follow-up question, “And a secular person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is religious, correct?” © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Truth When attention is your currency,  the difference between the true and the false matters much less than the difference between the compelling and the boring. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, January/February 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com