Quotes About Truth

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.

I mean, the human race wouldn't continue if anyone told you how hard it is having kids, would it?

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

I can't begin to describe how humiliating it is for a law-abiding citizen to be cross-examined in a court of law for a crime he hasn't committed.

Some people don't seem to be able to distinguish between humour and what you really feel. They forget that there's a difference between what's real and what's a fantasy or joke.

The fact is I don't even have one cent of savings abroad, don't have accounts at foreign banks, don't have deposits abroad and don't even have any shares in foreign firms, much less hundreds of billions of dollars.

The words of mere men are as naught against the Word of God.

This, like all the other British communiqués, was completely untrue. After two years of war, the British government and its servants were finally learning to behave like cads.

Por doquier la máscara, el disfraz, lo vestido, la verdad de lo desnudo. El verdadero sujeto de la repetición es la máscara. Porque la repetición difiere por naturaleza de la representación, lo repetido no puede ser representado, sino que debe ser siempre significado, enmascarado por lo que significa, enmascarando, a su vez, lo que significa.

For perhaps the flows are not yet deterritorialized enough, from the viewpoint of a theory and a practice of a highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to accelerate the process, as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet.

Por Dios, Atanarico, eras tú! ¡Nunca hubo nadie aparte de ti! ¿No es evidente?

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.

Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.

See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.

This was my eleventh lie.

And I don't know, you're at that age, if a bunch of grownups are telling you something or encouraging you, it just … it started to feel real. That Ben had molested me, because otherwise, why were all these adults trying to get me to say he had? And my parents would be all stern: It's OK to tell the truth. It's OK to tell the truth. And so you told the lie that they thought was the truth.

Would you still love me if I killed someone?" I said nothing. My breath was coming too fast. "I would still love you," Go said. "Go, do you really need me to say it?" She stayed silent. "I did not kill Amy." She stayed silent. "Do you believe me?" I asked. "I love you.

The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert.

It was my fifth lie to the police. I was just starting.