Truth

"Truth is the child of time, not of authority." Bertolt Brecht

"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." Jean-Claude Juncker

"When it becomes serious, you have to lie." Jean-Claude Juncker

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." Emile Zola

"Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces." Paul Claudel

"If you want to understand life, do not believe what is said and written, but observe for yourself and think it through." Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow

"Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it." Friedrich Dürrenmatt

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it." Blaise Pascal

"It is one of the most difficult things that can be imposed on a thinking man, to have to witness the course of a historical process among ignorant people, whose inevitable outcome he has long known with clarity. The time of the error of others, of false hopes, of blindly committed mistakes then becomes very long." Carl J. Burckhardt

"The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth." Ezra Pound

"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance." Maximilien de Robespierre

"Scepticism is the first step towards truth." Denis Diderot

"No one judges more harshly than the uneducated; he knows neither reasons nor counter-reasons and always believes himself to be in the right." Anselm Friedrich Feuerbach

"A fantastic thing is happening in our world. Today a man is no longer punished only for the crimes he has in fact committed. Now he may be compelled to confess to crimes that have been conjured up by his judges, who use his confession for political purposes." Joost A.M. Meerloo