Quotes About Truth

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I never promised you a rose garden.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

I don't make empty promises.

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

By being present and being true, I believe that, in my own way, I am promoting diversity.

Let me tell you, it is an absolute lie that I told a probe panel that Meiyappan was only a cricket enthusiast. All I said is he had nothing to do with the team's on-field cricketing decisions. I can't even pronounce the word 'enthusiast.'

We need proof in our society.

There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

I'm gonna write a book. I'm going to explain over the past 30 years of my life of things that I endured and what I went through. And when I do, I promise you with everything that I am that people will not believe me. But I have factual proof of everything that has happened to me, and I have been able to overcome.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Half-baked truth is dangerous - be it the propaganda of media or somebody else.

We're not going to allow the briefing room to be a platform for propaganda.

Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.

If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, 'No, you don't send our military into harm's way with no legal justification.'