Quote Mine/Quotes

"...Goddamn Jew Producers and their goddamn white flashes! *Flash* ...They can make us say whatever they want! *Flash* ...my... *Flash* ...taint... *Flash* ...is... *Flash* ...made... *Flash* ...out... *Flash* ...of... *Flash* ...bacon... *Flash* ...STOP IT!! Anyway, as I was saying, my taint is 100% pure bacon."

—Foxy Love, Drawn Together

"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."

—Friedrich Nietzsche

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

—The Merchant of Venice

Probably our favorite part of this story is where they quote the magazine saying canola oils "are ... toxic to humans." We're thinking the words they omitted for the ellipses there were, "obviously" and "not."

—Cracked, 7 Retarded Food Myths the Internet Thinks Are True

"YEEEESS! HOORAY FOR THE NAZIS! YEEEEEAHHH! (Please don't take this out of context and put it on YouTube)"

—Charlie Brooker, How TV Ruined Your Life

It is impossible for anyone to write a perfectly rationally argued document without a segment that, out of context, can be transformed by some dishonest copywriter to appear totally absurd and lend itself to sensationalization, so politicians, charlatans and, more disturbingly, journalists hunt for these segments. “Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung” goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand, a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror, and a few others. As Donald Trump said “The facts are true, the news is fake” – ironically at a press conference in which he suffered the same selective reporting as my RSA event.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Facts are True, the News is Fake