Truth Quotes

"The banality of evil reveals that we need not be monsters to commit monstrous acts."

"We construct elaborate justifications for our participation in systems of oppression."

"Evil emerges from the interaction between person and situation, not from character alone."

"Evil is not exceptional but emerges from ordinary social processes when systems permit it."

"The greatest lie we tell is the one we believe about our own consistency."

"We are all walking contradictions waiting to be reconciled."

"Our beliefs are less about truth and more about self-preservation."

"The uncomfortable truth is that we prefer comfortable lies."

"The greatest illusion is that we are rational beings making rational choices."

"The greatest barrier to truth is the need to be consistent with who we think we are."

"The gap between what we do and what we say we believe is the space where life happens."

"The uncomfortable feeling between belief and action is the alarm bell of consciousness."

"The amount of ecstasy we experience in life is proportional to the amount of truth we can accept."

"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"The only person who experiences our body, our thoughts, and our feelings is ourself. No one else can know these things about us the way we know them."

"The facts are always friendly; the truth is always friendly."

"The subjective human being is far more important than any objective fact."

"We are all capable of evil under the right circumstances. Understanding this is the first step toward preventing atrocities."

"Emotion is merely a collection of physiological responses."

"The unconscious mind is simply behavior we have not yet observed."

"Consciousness is simply awareness of one's own behavior."

"The spirit is mere metaphor for complex behaviors."

"We are all capable of committing acts that would have seemed unthinkable to us beforehand."

"The ordinary person cannot easily be distinguished from the person capable of atrocity."

"The human capacity for evil is not exceptional but commonplace."

"The tragedy is not that evil people do evil things, but that ordinary people do."

"The gap between what we believe about ourselves and how we act is often vast."

"The person who obeys is experiencing genuine conflict, not indifference."

"Authority can make the conscientious person do things they find morally repugnant."

"The person who obeys harmful orders is experiencing a real crisis of conscience."