Ali Shariati Quotes

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

For most politicians, facts lead to conclusions. For George W. Bush, conclusions lead to facts.

The assembly has witnessed how historical truth is established. Once an allegation is repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation. It is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.

Congressional investigations are not serious.... If you are really investigating something, you do not decide what the conclusion should be and then hold hearings to demonstrate those conclusions.... In politics, facts don't matter; you can say anything.

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.