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“Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.”
― Edward S. Herman, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“The kids threw the rumors out like lit matches, to see what would catch. I stayed silent, listening to the fizz and spark of their words, pretending I was water, putting them out.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who.”
― Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

“...when like-minded people get together, they often end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk to one another.”
― Cass R. Sunstein, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

“Mind your words, for the wind is sentient.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Lies can travel so fast, from one person to another. You can never take them back. It is like shaking out a pillowcase full of feathers at the top of a mountain on a windy day. Do you think you would ever be able to gather up every single feather again?â€�
“No, I guess not�, said the little girl.
“No, you can never find all the feathers because you will never know where they have gone â€� or how farâ€�, replied the tree. “It’s the same with lies, rumours, and gossipâ€�.”
― Martha Begley Schade, The Listening Tree: Befriending Nature

“All the worst things we believe about one another can always be proved with a story we've heard from someone who heard it from someone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Tiap bayangan memiliki nama;
Saat memikirkan semua yang kumiliki, aku gelisah,
Kudengar rumor tentang kemasyhuran.
Bukan untuk kebanggaan, melainkan hanya kehinaan,
Bayangan berubah menjadi tulang.

(Allen Ginsberg)”
― Walt Whitman, et. al, Nyanyian Diri dan Sepilihan Puisi Cinta

“Spread joy and laughter, not hate and rumors.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“...there are so many pleasurable topics to discuss besides other people.”
― Adam Zmarzlinski, The Auburn Prince

“Things always look ugly on other people, but the truth is, we all start as other people. The sad part is we usually die as other people. And worst of all, we never knew we were the other people all along.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“One nasty rumor, and the woman gets railroaded,â€� John grumbled. “It was the sister-in-law that spoke to the papers. None of what she said has any ground at all, but naturally, it was dragged to the finish line before the truth could beat it back.
-Johnathon Roberts, Page 321”
― Joshua Isbell, Power & Influence

“One day, you will come to realise that people will always try and wriggle out of the uncomfortable truths, choosing instead to cushion their fragile egos with the lies they want to hear. Well, now I realise, it is our job to make them listen.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

“For once, the rumors made me into the “victim,â€� when they could have easily made me into the “whore.â€� I wondered what makes people decide whether you’re one or the other. Either way, nobody really wants to know the truth.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“The point is, I understand about rumors and bullshit gossip all of these bored fuckers like to sling around. The only reason they do it is ‘cause their own lives are fucking boring. If you’re at the center of a rumor, it just means you’re more interesting than anyone else. You’ll be the one who they remember years from now. And isn’t that the point of living a life at all? To be remembered?”
― Daryl Banner, When I See You Again

“I don’t understand someone like you! You let people create rumors about you! Yes, they set you up, but do you know who gave them the power to do that? You! And your silence! I don’t know who taught you this, but suffering in silence is no way to live, Amelia! How can anyone help you if they don’t even know something is wrong?”
― Eunice Amnell, The Pack Outcast

“There's an urban myth, still popular in some quarters, that the Glock can't be detected by X-ray machines. The myth was spread by a Bruce Willis line in the 1990 movie Die Hard 2: "That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun, made in Germany. Doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines." Every bit of the line was false: there was no such thing as a "Glock 7"; Glocks are made of polymer, not porcelain; it was made in Austria, not Germany; and they do show up on X-ray machines. But in a strange twist, the firestorm of controversy triggered by the false rumors may have helped goose publicity and aid Glock sales.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“Rumors spread on nights like this, under the cold darkness.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“Terrible events produce outrage, and when people are outraged, they are all the more likely to accept rumors that justify their emotional states, and also to attribute those events to intentional action.”
― Cass R. Sunstein, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

“Some rumors simultaneously relieve "a primary emotional urge" and offer an explanation, to those who accept them, of why they feel as they do; the rumor "rationalizes while it relieves.”
― Cass R. Sunstein, On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

“If communication does not happen, communications happen.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows

“Everyone likes talking about other people's flaws, less so their own.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“But when people don’t know what is really happening then rumors start. And that is when you need to be really careful.”
― Gita Trelease, All That Glitters

“Never blame the wind for carrying what comes out of your mouth.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“If I slept with everyone I was supposed to have, I wouldn't have the energy to eat.”
― Michael Stipe

“Why can’t “They sayâ€� let every body settle their own affairs?”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“The speed of spreading rumors depends on the speed of the Internet”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“She wished the story was not about her mother, for then she would have courage to correct all mistakes The potato selling woman put in the story.
-Kissing death”
― Theogene TUYISHIMIRE

“I had seen an adept at the Low School fly. Actually fly. There were maybe a hundred of them in the world. Or maybe only twenty. Whoever knew wasn’t saying.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“Stories are contagious. Even the thoughts in your head can spread like a cold.”
― Eliza Jane Brazier, If I Disappear