Quotes About Truth

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.