In every truth the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political I can't do anything about that.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Truth always originates in a minority of one and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

I want everyone to tell me the truth even if it costs him his job.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Not everyone can see the truth but he can be it.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity every crack in the common front against fascism.

Rumi who is one of the greatest Persian poets said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.

Truth after all wears a different face to everybody and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

The truth is that life is delicious horrible charming frightful sweet bitter and that is everything.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.