Quotes About Hoax

The Great and Terrible Humbug

The hoax worked because of the West's absolute belief in its superiority to people of color; if a savvy Westerner could not explain such a trick, it must be real. The rope trick filled a cultural need—and revealed the gullibility that such delusions of superiority inevitably create.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I can fake anything.

Within weeks of the Ebola hoax dying down, the guys at Health Africa International approached my friends George Weah, Mahamadou Diarra, and I to be part of the initiative in using various forms of communication to promote a Ebola prevention education programme.

hoax played by a drunken officer.

Or maybe the stone was never real at all. Maybe it was all hoax, all story.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.

All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.

This world, I assure you, is only a vast device for kidding the world!

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

Sensible dog cautions all animals that pandemic is a hoax created by wolf in lion's clothing for personal gains,but duffer donkeys don't believe it. Crafty fox for merely own profit talks about it round the clock thru all channels to disseminate lies and make the environment of fear in the forest full of asses who only and easily accept this rumor. Beast are enjoying feast everyday because of this drama.

Wouldn't thinking have put over on us the biggest hoax yet?

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

I woke up and I just saw all these things, like 'RIP Skai Jackson,' and I'm like, 'Why do people think I'm dead? Like, what happened? Where did this come from?' And then one of my fans told me it was some girl who started it. And for me, that's just like not funny at all.

A singular hoax was displaying the agent wearing a paper bag mask, posing as an informer. "There's no doubt that they think we have a rat-snitch fingering them," Richards rejoiced.

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

When I read and watch Donald Trump shrug off or Twitter away that global warming is a hoax, his brushoffs don't have the fire and passion of other things he off-handedly rejects. It's a good sign recognizable to anyone loving Geminis in his or her life.

Strep. Tell me, O Socrates, I beseech you, by Jupiter, who are these that have uttered this grand song? Are they some heroines? Soc. By no means; but heavenly Clouds, great divinities to idle men; who supply us with thought and argument, and intelligence and humbug, and circumlocution, and ability to hoax, and comprehension

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.