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Dishonesty is the default

The Obama administration has made lying its policy.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 28, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Joe Digenova

Truth needs no law

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 12, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags H. L. Mencken

Truth can be revolutionary

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 3, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags George Orwell

Truth vs. lies

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 3, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags George Orwell

Discovering truths

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 8, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Galileo Galilei

Opinion vs. facts

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 13, 2014April 30, 2019Format QuoteCategories demagogues, truthTags Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Defending unpopular truth

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 4, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags James A. Garfield

Stumbling over the truth

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 22, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Winston Churchill

Wage slaves

It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 10, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Upton Sinclair

False dichotomy

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing which is the truth.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 14, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Ezra Pound

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