Truth

"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Universal suffrage did not give the masses the right to decide, but to approve the decision of one elite or another." José Ortega y Gasset

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know." Noam Chomsky

"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." James Dresden

"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." James Dresden

"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it." John Adams

"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

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

"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

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