Censorship is really about the state being afraid of the ideas of liberty; they’re afraid that it might catch on and that they will lose all control. —Johnny Adams
Tag: Truth
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth — that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. —Harry Browne
If you value your position and privileges more than truth, you will say what people want to hear rather than what needs to be said. —Lew Rockwell
What bold messaging means, from a libertarian perspective, is telling the truth. If there’s a libertarian who is telling the truth, there’s no way that it isn’t bold messaging. We are all radicals. We live under the biggest government in the history of the world. As Martin Luther King once said, “The United States government is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world” —Dave Smith
The government is not concerned with the truth. It lies to us regularly, consistently, systematically, and daily on matters great and small, but it prosecutes and jails those who lie to it! —Andrew Napolitano
The truth will not be an easy path. Perhaps, but it is the easiest among those that lie before us. Not an easy choice for the body, but the only one for the soul. No, not an easy path, but then we already have among us people, who have for years lived by the truth. And so: We need not be the first to set out on this path, Ours is but to join! The more of us set out together, the thicker our ranks, the easier and shorter will this path be for us all! If we become thousands—they will not cope, they will be unable to touch us. If we will grow to tens of thousands—we will not recognize our country! —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Advocating censoring someone instead of debating the merits of your argument is to admit your goal is not to expand knowledge but to suppress it. —Rob Schneider
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can’t lead to a good conclusion. —Julian Assange, Founder of WikiLeaks
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority. —Booker T. Washington
Every man knows there are evils in the world which need setting right… to most men one in particular stands out vividly… it stands out with such startling vividness that they lose sight of other evils. To the Socialist this evil is the capitalistic system; to the feminist, it is the subjection of women; to the clergyman, it is the decline of religion; to the staunch Republican it is the Democratic Party, and so on, ad infinitum. I, too, have a pet little evil, to which I am apt to attribute all the others. This evil is the neglect of thinking. And when I say thinking I mean real thinking, independent thinking, hard thinking. —Henry Hazlitt