The Re-Conquest of Ireland, ch. There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave, and seek prey only for himself. Who struggles can fail.
All truth goes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Then, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.