Post by midcan5 on Jan 6, 2016 6:48:46 GMT -5
What does it say about writers who use quotes that are fictional? Can we extrapolate that some people deal in propaganda rather than facts? Who makes up these false quotations and why? Obviously the quotations provide support for political and societal positions, but when the quotations are false what does that say about the content of the idea and the knowledge of the user? I often use quotations and try to reference the source. On occasion I have had to qualify a quote with secondary sources.
The made up quotations are often from America's founders and our early presidents. Washington and Jefferson often say things they never said. Gun rights are a favorite fictional piece of propaganda. Imagine George or Tom looking down and wondering why or how these made up quotes support over thirty gun deaths a day in America? What blindness informs this nonsense. And of course Adolph is added for he too is a favorite figure in any discussion.
Detailed information on many quotations is below. Feel free to add your favorites. George is first.
www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
Top five fake George Washington quotes.
www.thefederalistpapers.org/founders/washington/top-5-fake-george-washington-quotes
Another site to check is: quoteinvestigator.com/category/george-washington/
'This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!'
— Adolf Hitler, 1935
"This quote actually has quite a history, appearing over 100 times, in various forms, in different print sources. Its message is not subtle: gun registration leads to gun confiscation which leads to Auschwitz. And in case you weren’t clear about the connection between Nazis and contemporary gun control advocates, the last sentence spells it out: people in “the future” (i.e., the present) who advocate registration are literally “following Hitler’s lead.” That sound you hear is civilization being throttled by the hands of limousine liberal legislators.
Only two problems: one, there’s not a shred of historical evidence that Hitler ever said this, and two, it wouldn’t have made any sense even if he had."
blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/03/19/fake-quote-files-adolf-hitler-on-gun-registration-conquest-and-disarmament/
"We currently have no evidence that Thomas Jefferson said or wrote, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it" or any of its listed variations." Anna Berkes, 10/14/10
www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/beauty-second-amendment-quotation
"Quotes are the mental furniture of my life. From certain angles my inner landscape resembles a gallery hung with half-recalled citations, the rags and tag-ends of a lifetime of reading and listening." Geoffrey O’Brien opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/we-are-what-we-quote/
"We cannot predict the future, but the past is changing before our very eyes." Soviet radio reporting on the Politburo’s deliberations
The made up quotations are often from America's founders and our early presidents. Washington and Jefferson often say things they never said. Gun rights are a favorite fictional piece of propaganda. Imagine George or Tom looking down and wondering why or how these made up quotes support over thirty gun deaths a day in America? What blindness informs this nonsense. And of course Adolph is added for he too is a favorite figure in any discussion.
Detailed information on many quotations is below. Feel free to add your favorites. George is first.
www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
Top five fake George Washington quotes.
www.thefederalistpapers.org/founders/washington/top-5-fake-george-washington-quotes
Another site to check is: quoteinvestigator.com/category/george-washington/
'This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!'
— Adolf Hitler, 1935
"This quote actually has quite a history, appearing over 100 times, in various forms, in different print sources. Its message is not subtle: gun registration leads to gun confiscation which leads to Auschwitz. And in case you weren’t clear about the connection between Nazis and contemporary gun control advocates, the last sentence spells it out: people in “the future” (i.e., the present) who advocate registration are literally “following Hitler’s lead.” That sound you hear is civilization being throttled by the hands of limousine liberal legislators.
Only two problems: one, there’s not a shred of historical evidence that Hitler ever said this, and two, it wouldn’t have made any sense even if he had."
blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/03/19/fake-quote-files-adolf-hitler-on-gun-registration-conquest-and-disarmament/
"We currently have no evidence that Thomas Jefferson said or wrote, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it" or any of its listed variations." Anna Berkes, 10/14/10
www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/beauty-second-amendment-quotation
"Quotes are the mental furniture of my life. From certain angles my inner landscape resembles a gallery hung with half-recalled citations, the rags and tag-ends of a lifetime of reading and listening." Geoffrey O’Brien opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/we-are-what-we-quote/
"We cannot predict the future, but the past is changing before our very eyes." Soviet radio reporting on the Politburo’s deliberations