Quotations

“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we will mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that, if we hear enough lies, that we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is who to blame.”

-Valery Legasov (1936-1988) chief investigator of the Chernobyl disaster, spoken before suicide.