Howard Zinn Quotes

Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

I believe that we should keep the truth as a priority.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

I've never really dissed Ma$e - I just tell you the truth, and if you think he's a sucker for that, it ain't my fault.

Listen: women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie, guy.

There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.

Speaking of honesty, if you're like me you turn on the news to get information - a set of facts. If you want opinion, you come to shows like mine, where our prejudices and biases and opinions are made known; there's no false pretenses that you're getting pure objectivity.

Women lie, men lie, numbers don't.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.” But today, we won’t even honestly describe the motivations of our enemies. And in the act of lying to ourselves, we continue to pay lip service to the very delusions that empower them.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Self-analysis always cheats.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.