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Quotes About Truth

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
~ Harry Browne
True obedience is true freedom.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
~ Joseph Addison
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
~ Michael Parenti
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.
~ Linus Pauling
I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.
~ Devendra Banhart
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
~ Bertrand Russell
If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
~ Timothy Radcliffe
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
~ James Nachtwey
I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.
~ Glenn Greenwald
It's an important fact of life, war.
~ Jeff Goldblum
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
~ John Locke
The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.
~ Chris Hedges
In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
~ Charles Lindbergh
No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.
~ Salvador de Madariaga
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
~ Olavo de Carvalho
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
~ Alexander Cockburn
War taught me that not everything is glamorous.
~ Giorgio Armani
It is always more valuable to report the truth.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.
~ Carol Grace
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.
~ Donald Rumsfeld