Backgrounds Quote by George Orwell

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies…

— Alan Dershowitz

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the…

— Walter Brueggemann

“Reason and logic are a force for unity. People can rally around the objective, absolute Truth. All of these are undermined by the Dunning-Kruger…

— Joe Dixon

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle…

— Zechariah Chafee

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

— Rene Descartes

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

— Daniel Webster

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he…

— Anonymous

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

— John Stuart Mill

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“When you enter the realm of politics and ideology, the distinction between opinion and fact starts to cloud, and the stakes become dauntingly high;…

— Michael Hirschorn

“There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality,…

— Michael Albert