Quotes About Truth

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

My true passion is in the prosecution of criminal cases.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

I have faith in the people. Honesty will prosper.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

The British public are not children who need protection from the truth.

I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

The United States has to be everything that China under dictatorship is not: well governed, intolerant of corruption, respectful of privacy, protective of truth-tellers and willing to help - rather than bully - the world.

My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.

The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.