Quotes for All
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These… tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the “patriots,” while the men who have the courage … Read more
People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you’ve gotta learn to stand up to them, so don’t be offended if I say something you don’t like. Eminem
Nobody speaks the truth when there’s something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is an author’s most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? Edward Abbey
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer. Edmund Burke
It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth. E. M. Forster
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoevsky
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race – before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications. Friedrich Nietzsche
You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time. Frederick Lenz