Stanisław Lem, Polish SF writer
The most disgusting nonsense is pumped into people with the help of the latest technologies.
Aristotle, a Greek philosopher
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster, writer, and political activist
The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
Winston S. Churchill, a British statesman, army officer, and writer
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Olga Tokarczuk, a Polish writer, awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
Newspapers want to keep us constantly anxious so as to direct our emotions not to what they should really be about.
Donald Tusk, former president of the European Council
In the time of a real plague let us be immune
to the virus of a lie.
to the virus of a lie.
Daniel J. Levitin, writer
Critical thinking doesn’t mean we disparage everything; it means that we try to distinguish between claims with evidence and those without.
Albert Einstein, physicist
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
The best response to disinformation and propaganda is free and independent press, is the work of journalists. When they ask the difficult questions, then disinformation and propaganda will never succeed.