Truth Quotes

"The reified consciousness takes the world as given and unchangeable."

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that it requires a great deal of mental effort."

"Clandestinity and concealment are always signs of weakness."

"The only efficient reply to propaganda is more and better news and information."

"We must distinguish between the image we present to the world and the reality we live in private."

"The exception reveals the truth that the norm conceals."

"The exception is the truth; the rule is merely what the exception permits to exist."

"Truth claims are always contestable; they gain validity through consensus achieved via rational discourse."

"Even consensus can be false if it results from systematic distortion or exclusion."

"The jargon of authenticity masks the deepest structures of domination and reification."

"Language becomes ideology when it naturalizes the contingent and presents the constructed as inevitable."

"The jargon of authenticity serves to obscure the deepest inauthenticity of administered life."

"Suffering under administered society becomes invisible, naturalized, and accepted as inevitable."

"The pursuit of the ideal of objective truth alone can never lead to a fully just society."

"Truth is not a commodity to be possessed, but a process of questioning we must continually engage in."

"The capacity for self-deception seems nearly infinite, and all of us exercise it regularly."

"Language conceals as much as it reveals about the nature of reality."

"The search for truth is compromised when truth becomes useful."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil."

"The danger of propaganda is that it makes people incapable of recognizing truth."

"Common sense is no longer common because we have lost touch with shared reality."

"Lying becomes easier when the truth has been systematically destroyed."

"The loss of reality is the loss of common sense."

"Legal validity and historical reality are not the same thing."

"The exception reveals the truth that the norm attempts to conceal."

"The exception proves what the rule would hide if left undisturbed."

"The exception is the truth of which the rule is only the appearance."

"The true is the whole."

"Truth cannot be hidden forever."

"Truth emerges through contradiction."