“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - “To stand up for truth is...” 1

Similar quotes

“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!”

Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar
Read more

“The truth!" we demanded."Oh, the truth," she stammered, "the truth has nothing to do with literature," and sitting down she refused to say another word.It all seemed to us very inconclusive.”

Virgina Woolf
Read more

“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”

Irvin D. Yalom
Read more

“But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.”

Richard Pryor
Read more

“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”

colum mccann
Read more