Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years,

Summary

This quote, said by the renowned investigative journalist Hunter S. Thompson, highlights the complex nature of truth and its implications in professional journalism. Thompson suggests that if he had exposed all the truth he knew over the past decade, including potentially incriminating information, numerous individuals, including himself, would be incarcerated today. This statement sheds light on the controversial idea that absolute truth can be a risky and scarce asset within the realm of journalism, emphasizing the challenging ethical decisions faced by journalists when revealing or withholding information.

By Hunter S. Thompson

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Austin O'Malley

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeto

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is al

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People Character

We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these

We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these hundred years can be returned, not even if we are prepared to pay millions of dollars. We cannot add a moment, nor can we get a moment back. If time is money, we should just consider how much money we have lost.

Swami Prabhupada

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also sha

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and scien

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we wan

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriousl

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and u

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wan

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.