Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [501-520] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes All truth is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward, or a criminal, or both.~ Max Muller The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.~ Edward R. Murrow We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.~ Edward R. Murrow People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.~ Richard J. Needham Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.~ Reinhold Niebuhr In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Belief means not wanting to know what is true.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.~ Richard M. Nixon As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.~ Lyn Nofziger People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.~ Frank Norris The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.~ Charles Eliot Norton I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.~ George Orwell In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.~ George Orwell The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.~ George Orwell The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.~ George Orwell The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.~ George Orwell Petty laws breed great crimes.~ Ouida Character is much easier kept than recovered.~ Thomas Paine I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.~ Thomas Paine Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print