The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current h...
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.
There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be their voice. When they are hunted, we must be their shield. When they are locked away, we must free them. Giving us the truth ...
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the h...
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a...
