Truth

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." Seneca

"Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right." H. L. Mencken

"Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known." Heraklit

"In a situation when you feel threatened there is less room to criticize the government because then you are immediately labeled a traitor. Like this is war now. We’re in a national emergency. We all have to unite around the government and anybody who opposes that or criticizes the government is a traitor. [...] this is why very often even in a situation when there is no real threat leaders are manufacturing artificial threats." Yuval Noah Harari

"Truth-seeking is the path to self-annihilation and thus to liberation." Bernardo Kastrup

"Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview." Bernardo Kastrup

"The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." G. Edward Griffin

"Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive." Juvenal

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge." Alfred North Whitehead

"In war, truth is the first casualty." Aischylos

"There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one." Alexander McCall Smith

"Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths." Eddie Adams

"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie." Austin O'Malley

"The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect" Jacques Martin Barzun