desirability quotes

The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at the bottom a controversy over the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies.What is really at issue is the right to report events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic,  Jan.