Quotes About Truth

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. -- Speeches

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

I shall never believe that what is founded on lies can endure for ever. I believe in truth. I'm sure that, in the long run, truth must be victorious.

Don't read everything on the internet as true, as it might not be.

When I recognize a concept as correct, I not only have the duty to convey this to my fellow citizens, but moreover the duty to eliminate contrary interpretations.

World deception growing apace.

The people in their overwhelming majority are so feminine by nature and attitude that sober reasoning determines their thoughts and actions far less than emotion and feeling. And this sentiment is not complicated, but very simple and all of a piece. It does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way, never partially, or that kind of thing.

I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war - never mind whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. Instarting and waging a war it is not right that matters, but victory . . . Eighty million people must obtain what is their right . . . The stronger man is right . . . Whoever has pondered over this world order knows that its meaning lies in the success of the best by means of force . . .

U]npleasant truths are hastily and nonchalantly brushed aside, as if by so doing the truth could be abolished.

Non si può valutare l'importanza del teorico dalla realizzazione dei suoi scopi ma soltanto dalla loro verità e dall'influenza che esercitano

Çünkü tarihin Pantheon'una yaln?z kahramanlar girer, entrikac?lar deÄŸil.

La psicologia della massa non è adatta alle mezze verità. Come la dona, così anche la massa cede al padrone piuttosto che al supplice

If Social Democracy were to be opposed by a more truthful but equally brutal teaching, then this truthful teaching will ultimately prevail-even though the struggle may be of the bitterest kind.

The significance of a political philosopher does not depend on the practical success of the plans he lays down but rather on their absolute truth and the influence they exert on the progress of mankind. If

Se uma doutrina que encerrasse mais inveracidade ao lado de idêntica brutalidade na propaganda, fosse oposta a social-democracia, triunfaria do mesmo modo, por mais áspera que fosse a luta.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

El error no está en soñar que existan jardines secretos, sino en soñar que tienen puertas

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

All the news that's fit to print.

In reading Scripture, we feel in the presence of Him unto whose eyes all things are naked and open.