Quotes

You can't talk to the ignorant about lies, since they have no criteria.

Ezra Pound

There is nothing a government hates more than to be well-informed; for it makes the process of arriving at decisions much more complicated and difficult.

John Maynard Keynes, The Times (March 11, 1937); Collected Writings, vol. 21, p. 409.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Thomas Paine