Truth Quotes

"Truth is often uncomfortable because it challenges our necessary illusions."

"You know you are on the right track when those who do wrong become angry with you."

"I have learned that you cannot negotiate with those who do not want peace."

"Truth hides in what appears most obvious."

"The psychiatrist who hides his feelings about colonialism practices pseudo-medicine."

"We must stop deceiving ourselves about our capacity to resist."

"Secular criticism must begin by taking seriously and literally the effort required to speak of secular things in a secular way."

"The intellectual's role is to speak truth to power, whatever the consequences."

"Secular discourse must be rigorous, accountable, and attentive to consequences."

"Truth-telling is an act of courage in a world of lies and deception."

"Psychiatry has imprisoned the soul in the name of liberation."

"Signification is always incomplete and plural."

"The map is not the territory; the sign is not the thing."

"The sign never fully captures the thing it represents."

"Truth is always multiple and perspectival."

"Truth cannot be owned, only expressed."

"The greatest obscenity is not what we see, but what we refuse to see."

"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction must be plausible."

"Truth is what resists being said."

"Writing is the condition of possibility for truth and its concealment."

"Truth is not a presence to be discovered but an event to be thought."

"The writer has a responsibility to speak uncomfortable truths"

"Truth-telling is always a political act"

"Authenticity is a constructed effect, not a natural condition"

"We are all contaminated by the systems we oppose"

"We must learn to live with the burden of complicity"

"Truth is concrete; it is always expressed in specific contexts."

"Truth is not correspondence but productivity"

"The event is what escapes causality"

"The witness does not simply report the truth; the witness becomes the truth in their testimony."