Truth

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." André Gide

"The leading media as well as the mass media are business models and serve no more to convey "truth" than the pharmaceutical industry serves to promote public health. Indoctrination is part of the essence of media." Prof. Rainer Mausfeld

"If the truth shall kill them, let them die." Ayn Rand

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." Ayn Rand

"To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality." Ayn Rand

"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." Ayn Rand

"Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns." Murray Rothbard

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right." George Orwell

"However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing." George Orwell

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell

"If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity." Umberto Eco

"The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?" Umberto Eco

"You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday" Jonathan Swift

"Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth." Erich Fromm