Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-02-02 Feb 2, 2023A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.~ Edgar J. MohnIf falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.~ Michel De MontaigneTruth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.~ Sir Winston Churchill Feb 1, 2023There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.~ Daniel DennettA good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister… For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.~ Justice Clarence ThomasIf there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Jan 31, 2023The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.~ Aldous HuxleySociety attacks early when the individual is helpless.~ B. F. SkinnerThe pen is mightier than the sword.~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton Jan 30, 2023It is not laissez-faire that has failed. That would be an ill day for men. What has failed is the courage to see what is true and speak it to the people, to point to the true remedies.~ Auberon HerbertThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.~ Bertrand RussellThe first casualty when war comes is truth.~ Hiram W. Johnson Jan 27, 2023Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.~ A. J. P. TaylorWherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at.~ George SavileGive a good man great powers and crooks grab his job.~ Rick Gaber Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print