Hoaxes Quotes - Page 3

• Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Library, Relief, Danger

  5 Copy quote

• One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Offering, People, Making Love

  6 Copy quote

• Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

  Stephan Pastis

  Thinking, Want, Helping

  4 Copy quote

• I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

  Alexander Stepanov

  Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Objects

  Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.

  Nick Denton

  Character, Cutting, Google

  4 Copy quote

• In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.

  Johnny Carson

  Children, Men, Two

  6 Copy quote

• After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Men, Heartless

  Josh McDowell (1979). “Evidence That Demands a Verdict”, Thomas Nelson

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes like this go unchecked, who can believe anything they see on the Internet? What good would the Internet be then? If the people who control Internet web sites do not do anything, is that not an open invitation for government to step in? And does anybody want politicians to control what can go on the Internet?

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Government, People

  11 Copy quote

• Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Health, Doctors

  13 Copy quote

• I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

  Joey Skaggs

  Media, Voice, Majority

  4 Copy quote

• Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural selection's most successful hoaxes ever-and smile at the sheer ingenuity involved in pulling it off, at the very thought of such mindless cleverness. One can still enjoy the illusion of God, after all, without believing Him to be real.

  Jesse Bering

  Real, Believe, Successful

  Jesse Bering (2013). “The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, America, Giants

  "This much I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2005.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

  Sam Harris

  Running, Country, Believe

  10 Copy quote

• Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

  Martin Amis

  Sorry, Believe, Hypnosis

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.277, Vintage

  5 Copy quote

  Show source