David Icke Quotes

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.