The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.
