Truth Telling Quotes
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
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“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
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“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
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“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
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people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
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“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― UNDER MY SKIN--VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
― UNDER MY SKIN--VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
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“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
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“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
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“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”
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“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.”
― Marx in Soho: A Play on History
― Marx in Soho: A Play on History
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”
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“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
― The Education of Henry Adams
― The Education of Henry Adams
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
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