Truth

"A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality." Solon

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." Denis Diderot

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." Henry Louis Mencken

"People can play many roles and be subjectively convinced that each one is their true self. In reality, however, they play each role based on their own ideas of what those around them expect of them. And for many people—if not most—the true personality is completely overshadowed by the false one." Erich Fromm

"It is better to be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie." Unknown

"Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth." Eduard Douwes Dekker

"Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event" Walter Lippmann

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre." Henry Louis Mencken

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." Oscar Wilde

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . ." Flannery O’Connor

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." Christopher Hitchens

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." Henry Louis Mencken

"When you’re happy, you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics." Frank Ocean

"Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life." Bruce Lee