''To speak the truth is a petit-bourgeois habit. To lie, on the contrary, is often justified by the lie's aim. The whole world's capitalists and their governments, as they pant to win the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the above-mentioned reality and will thus transform themselves into men who are deaf, dumb and blind. They will give us credits . . . they will toil to prepare their own suicide.'' -Lenin

"Subordinating truth to the demands of justice cannot be just, and may be a big step toward creating injustice, even tyranny." -Sean Wilentz

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

"That’s her trouble—always wanting things to be what they should be, and never are.  She looks at the city and she thinks of what’s going on in the penthouses, little islands of light in the sky, and she thinks of great, mysterious, breathstopping things, not of cocktail parties, and drunks in bathrooms, and kept women with dogs."  -Ayn Rand, The Simplest Thing in the World