It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra PoundRead
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Infamy grows through deceit and controversy, leading people to focus on conflict over truth.
This quote by Ezra Pound suggests that the strategy behind infamy is to propagate multiple lies simultaneously, creating confusion and igniting debates about which is true. This tactic distracts from the genuine search for truth and can manipulate public perception, highlighting the dangers of misinformation and the susceptibility of society to division.
Themes
InfamyLiesTruthDeceptionArgument
In practice
Example use cases
During a debate about fake news, one could use this quote to illustrate how misinformation spreads.
More from Ezra Pound
All quotes βThe ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
Ezra PoundRead
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
Ezra PoundRead
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra PoundRead
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra PoundRead
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra PoundRead
Similar quotes
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.
Benjamin FranklinRead
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
D. H. LawrenceRead
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.
Emmanuel MacronRead
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann MartelRead
Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?
Yasmin MogahedRead