Quotes About Truth

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.

Republicans have to tell the truth about the issues impacting the black community. The must focus on restoring the black family, jobs, safe communities, and better schools. They have to make sure not to pander to blacks by treating them like victims or as 'special minority' group.

History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore.

Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

It isn't only Republicans, it seems, who traffic in alternative facts. Since Donald Trump's shock election victory, leading Democrats have worked hard to convince themselves, and the rest of us, that his triumph had less to do with racism and much more to do with economic anxiety - despite almost all of the available evidence suggesting otherwise.

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.

Are all my videos a hundred percent real? Absolutely not.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling.

My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.

Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being told in our newspapers and newscasts, back in the States, wasn't half the story of what was really going on.