Quotes About Truth

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.