Quotes About Truth

Even if you, a non-German, adopted the hateful creed, you didn't really get anywhere; the true Herrenvolk would use you, but in their hearts they would despise you as a traitor to your own kind and a dupe of the Nazi Weltbetrag. The Nazis had chosen Loki, god of lies, for their Nordic deity, and all other peoples had to learn to live under his scepter.

In Mein Kampf this master orator and statesman had laid down the rule that when you told a lie it should be a big one, as that was easier to believe.

No matter whether it was true or not—for Adi meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that.

albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into

the dark shadow of conflict was looming over the world again; but no use to say it, for people didn't want to believe it and they knew how to believe what they chose.

In wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. IV

The history of Germany is becoming a melodrama," wrote the Jewish financier. "In times to come people will refuse to believe it.

no use to say it, for people didn't want to believe it and they knew how to believe what they chose.

Mark Twain, I believe, is author of the saying that a lie can run all the way round the earth while the truth is putting on its

For when you let down the bars and admitted the right to lie and to cheat, you were undermining the very bases upon which human societies are built. Particularly when you admitted the right of political parties to lie and cheat, for how, then, could anybody have faith in them? How could their own followers know what they were or what they would become?

He explained Adi's propaganda technique of choosing a big lie and repeating it incessantly until everybody believed it;

in his book that you can get any lie believed if you repeat it often enough; and especially if it's a big lie—because people will say that nobody would dare to tell one as big as that. It is no exaggeration to say that he has made Germany into a headquarters of the Lie; he has told so many and so often that nobody in his country has any means of distinguishing truth from falsehood.

All news was propaganda now; you had to learn the special slant of each station and discount its brand of falsification or suppression.

The dream of every dictator was to get exclusive control of that colossal instrument, so that never again in all history would it be possible to answer back. Then what you said would become the truth and the only truth—no matter how false it might have been previously! He who could get and hold the radio became God.

It was like that with many other events, and it took courage for the few, who would preserve the texture of the truth, not to let its fibers slip beneath the web of silence and collusion which people—often with the best of intentions—spun to sustain and protect one another.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

The saints are persecuted, eyes are closed to the truth, darkness is the daily wear. The most savage beasts are those that are blind. No one thinks seriously of Hell. Oh the wickedness of people! In the name of the King' means, in these days, In the name of the Revolution! No man knows where his duty lies, to be living or to be dead. To die in sanctity is forbidden, burial is a civic matter.

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie. Those of us who had been in that part of Africa before the Europeans had never lied about ourselves. Not because we were moral. We didn't lie because we never assessed ourselves and didn't think there was anything for us to lie about; we were people who simply did what we did.

I had talked of Raymond's pain when I was thinking of my own, and Yvette had talked of Raymond's needs when was thinking of her won. We had begun to talk, if not in opposites, at least indirectly, lying and not lying, making those signals at the truth which people in certain situations find it necessary to make.

adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Stephen Jay Gould

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.