Suppression of Truth Quotes

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of it's powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

How did we come to this: a Kafkaesque world where information that is in the public domain can be retroactively declared secret.

In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only can't you tell the truth, you can't think the truth. It's just so deeply embedded, deeply instilled, that without any meaningful coercion it comes out the same way it does in a totalitarian state.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

[…] the evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”

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

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Reporters were all part of the war effort. They went along with it, and not only that, they abetted it.…It is in the things not mentioned that the untruth lies.…They wrote only a part of the war

This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.