Quotes About Validity

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

A value is true because it's true because it's true.

And that was the ultimate sting of democracy, you see: the insane idea that one man's ignorance was just as worthy as another man's knowledge. The ludicrous idea that the vote of the uniformed is just as valid as that of the educated.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.

Authenticity is boring, credibility is important

We saw what we saw. Whether it was a place or a vision in our mind, it doesn't matter. We must act upon what we experienced, so to that end, yes, it was real.' 'Now?

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

Fashionably relativist intellectuals chime in to insist that there is no absolute truth: whether Holocaust happened is a matter of personal belief; all points of view are equally valid and should be equally 'respected'.

Per quanto noi possiamo deplorare una cosa, questo non le impedisce di essere vera.

Not every English sentence beginning with the word why is a legitimate question.

He would live to see people praised for things that were not worthy of praise, simply because truth was seen to be bad for their feelings.

Ann says I fabricate these feelings. But so what? I still have them.

don't believe 2+2=4. I know it. I am certain of

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

True or true? Yes or yes?

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.