Quotes About Truth

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Justice is not easy. It does not fit the mold of public opinion.

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

At every point in 'Broadchurch' you're continually told and pulled back into the emotional cost.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

When people claim that they know the formula or the pulse of the public... it's rubbish, the truth is that no one knows.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying.