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Top 20 Maria Ressa Quotes (2026 Update)

Maria Ressa Quote: “Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it – and all meaningful human endeavors – are dead.”

1. “Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it – and all meaningful human endeavors – are dead.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?”

2. “What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut. This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line.”

3. “Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut. This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “The world we once knew is decimated. Now we have to decide what we want to create.”

4. “The world we once knew is decimated. Now we have to decide what we want to create.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “When you take a risk, you have to trust that someone will come to your aid; and when it’s your turn, you will help someone else. It’s better to face your fear than to run from it because running won’t make the problem go away. When you face it, you have the chance to conquer it. That was how I began to define courage.”

5. “When you take a risk, you have to trust that someone will come to your aid; and when it’s your turn, you will help someone else. It’s better to face your fear than to run from it because running won’t make the problem go away. When you face it, you have the chance to conquer it. That was how I began to define courage.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Tech sucked up our personal experiences and data, organized it with artificial intelligence, manipulated us with it, and created behavior at a scale that brought out the worst in humanity.”

6. “Tech sucked up our personal experiences and data, organized it with artificial intelligence, manipulated us with it, and created behavior at a scale that brought out the worst in humanity.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “If you’re lucky, you realize early on that each decision you make answers a question that all of us muddle through: how to build meaning in our lives. Meaning is not something you stumble across or what someone gives you; you build it through every choice you make, the commitments you choose, the people you love, and the values you hold dear.”

7. “If you’re lucky, you realize early on that each decision you make answers a question that all of us muddle through: how to build meaning in our lives. Meaning is not something you stumble across or what someone gives you; you build it through every choice you make, the commitments you choose, the people you love, and the values you hold dear.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “What gets our attention is what gives our lives meaning. Where we spend our time determines what we accomplish and what we become good at.”

8. “What gets our attention is what gives our lives meaning. Where we spend our time determines what we accomplish and what we become good at.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Impunity online naturally led to impunity offline, destroying existing checks and balances.”

9. “Impunity online naturally led to impunity offline, destroying existing checks and balances.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Every development that happens in my country eventually happens in the rest of the world – if not tomorrow, then a year or two later.”

10. “Every development that happens in my country eventually happens in the rest of the world – if not tomorrow, then a year or two later.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “You can’t have integrity of elections if you don’t have integrity of facts.”

11. “You can’t have integrity of elections if you don’t have integrity of facts.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “There are solutions: in the long term, the most important thing is education, so start now; in the medium term, it’s legislation and policy to restore the rule of law in the virtual world – to create a vision of the internet that binds us together instead of tearing us apart. In the short term, now, it’s just us: collaborate, collaborate, collaborate. And that begins with trust.”

12. “There are solutions: in the long term, the most important thing is education, so start now; in the medium term, it’s legislation and policy to restore the rule of law in the virtual world – to create a vision of the internet that binds us together instead of tearing us apart. In the short term, now, it’s just us: collaborate, collaborate, collaborate. And that begins with trust.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Staying silent or compliant changed nothing. Speaking up was an act of creation.”

13. “Staying silent or compliant changed nothing. Speaking up was an act of creation.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Today, an emergent wave of right-wing populist leaders uses social media to question and break down reality, triggering rage and paranoia on a bed of exponential lies. This is how fascism is normalized and where political outrage meets terrorism, the vanguard of mass violence.”

14. “Today, an emergent wave of right-wing populist leaders uses social media to question and break down reality, triggering rage and paranoia on a bed of exponential lies. This is how fascism is normalized and where political outrage meets terrorism, the vanguard of mass violence.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Today, I’m beyond disillusioned. I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies’ greed for growth and revenues.”

15. “Today, I’m beyond disillusioned. I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies’ greed for growth and revenues.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “In an autocracy, a journalist’s opponent is the state – which makes policy, controls the police, hires the prosecutors, and readies the prisons. It has an army of bots active online to vilify and undermine anyone deemed an opponent. It has the power to take down broadcasters and online sites. Most important: it has a need to control the message in order to survive. Its existence depends on ensuring that there is only one side to every story.”

16. “In an autocracy, a journalist’s opponent is the state – which makes policy, controls the police, hires the prosecutors, and readies the prisons. It has an army of bots active online to vilify and undermine anyone deemed an opponent. It has the power to take down broadcasters and online sites. Most important: it has a need to control the message in order to survive. Its existence depends on ensuring that there is only one side to every story.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “It’s better to face your fear than to run from it. Because running from it won’t take away the fear. When you face it, you have the chance to conquer it.”

17. “It’s better to face your fear than to run from it. Because running from it won’t take away the fear. When you face it, you have the chance to conquer it.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Some days, I feel like Sisyphus and Cassandra combined, trying to repeatedly warn the world about how social media has destroyed our shared reality, the place where democracy happens.”

18. “Some days, I feel like Sisyphus and Cassandra combined, trying to repeatedly warn the world about how social media has destroyed our shared reality, the place where democracy happens.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “This is why propaganda networks are so effective in rewriting history: the distribution spread of a lie is so much greater than the fact-check that follows, and by the time the lie is debunked, those who believe it often refuse to change their views, matching social media’s impact on behavior in other parts of the world.26.”

19. “This is why propaganda networks are so effective in rewriting history: the distribution spread of a lie is so much greater than the fact-check that follows, and by the time the lie is debunked, those who believe it often refuse to change their views, matching social media’s impact on behavior in other parts of the world.26.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Online violence is real-world violence.”

20. “Online violence is real-world violence.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Facebook didn’t only provide a platform for those propagandists’ speech or even only enable them; in fact, it gave them preferential treatment because anger is the contagious currency of Facebook’s current machine. Only anger, outrage, and fear lead to greater numbers of people using Facebook more times a day. Violence has made Facebook rich.”

21. “Facebook didn’t only provide a platform for those propagandists’ speech or even only enable them; in fact, it gave them preferential treatment because anger is the contagious currency of Facebook’s current machine. Only anger, outrage, and fear lead to greater numbers of people using Facebook more times a day. Violence has made Facebook rich.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust.”

22. “Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust.”

— Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa Quote: “To social media platforms, I said, “Your business model has divided societies and weakened democracies. Personalization says my reality is different from yours, and we can all have our realities. But all these realities have to coexist in the public sphere. You can’t tear us apart to the point that we don’t agree on facts.” They didn’t listen, and we’re worse off today. I asked journalists and activists to stay the course, and we have – with great sacrifice.43.”

23. “To social media platforms, I said, “Your business model has divided societies and weakened democracies. Personalization says my reality is different from yours, and we can all have our realities. But all these realities have to coexist in the public sphere. You can’t tear us apart to the point that we don’t agree on facts.” They didn’t listen, and we’re worse off today. I asked journalists and activists to stay the course, and we have – with great sacrifice.43.”

— Maria Ressa

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