Boris Pasternak Quotes

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can't just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.

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

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

There is a big disincentive to talk about the truth. I will speak the truth.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

Dissenters will become food for crocodiles.

A single seemingly powerless person who dares to cry out the word of truth and to stand behind it with all his person and all his life, has, surprisingly, greater power, though formally disenfranchised, than do thousands of anonymous voters.

They didn't begin telling the truth in the Soviet Union until after it collapsed, did they?

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I learned that you should never be afraid to speak your mind especially when you know it's right.

Sadly, I never really tell people what I think. So it's a real treat to play a woman who's able to speak her mind unabashedly.

I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.

I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.

I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn't have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn't say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

A 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.

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.