Nobel Lecture by Harold Pinter | Art, Truth and Politics

t r u t h o u t - Harold Pinter | Art, Truth and Politics

"Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed. ...

The truth is something entirely different. The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it. "