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"When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say."
by orlp 4y ago
"When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say."
- philliphaydon 4y agoWow I’ve not heard this one before? Who said this? I love it.
- ninjin 4y agoApparently George RR Martin, from A Clash of Kings. Edit: Apologies, should have been in response to the sibling, rather than the parent.
- JesusLovesEwe 4y agoThis does not apply to Holocaust revisionism, before anyone even suggests it.
- FeepingCreature 4y agoSure it applies. In that case, there's just maybe some legitimate reason to fear it.
- handsclean 4y agoImagine there’s an FBI raid on, or congressional investigation into, whatever American news outlet attacks your political beliefs, and I think you’ll find yourself believing not that the government must be scared of the truth, but that these guys didn’t deserve their tongues. It’s easy to stand outside a regime’s borders and say it can’t change your reality, and comforting to believe that the truth always comes out in the end, but I think reality is more harsh: “History is written by the winners.”