"Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss." This is an Orwell quote found at the beginning of Crichton's book.
I like this one much more, it seems to fit better: "Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Found at the beginning of the video regarding the Wikileaks scandal -- the Wikileaks organization is trying to reverse the widely accepted belief that if you attain just enough power, you can turn any fiction into a fact, no matter how many people secretly know you're wrong.
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M. Latour would be right there with you: when enough believe it IS TRUE (in the only way things are true for humans). And the facts won't make it different.
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