Truth

"The truth must be served like a coat, and not thrown in the face like a wet towel." Mark Twain

"If you trust me completely…I can help you. If I tell you you are not within a prison the prison is within you can you believe that?" Kwai Chang Caine

"What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty." Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool" Plato

"The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." George Orwell

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority." Francis Bacon

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

"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

"The predominant reason mainstream news reporters say things that aren’t true is because in order to be hired by mainstream news outlets, you need to jack your mind into a power-serving worldview that is not based in truth." Caitlin Johnstone

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

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." Friedrich Nietzsche

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