Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Remorse is the most painful sentiment that can ever arise in the human breast."
Adam Smith
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"The consciousness of ill-desert is the only sentiment which can render misery unsupportable."
Adam Smith
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"A Scotsman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth."
Adam Smith
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"Truth is revolutionary by its very nature."
Michel Bakunin
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"Truth will always challenge comfortable lies."
Michel Bakunin
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"Truth emerges only through honest dialogue and inquiry."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Truth often challenges our comfortable assumptions."
Peter Kropotkin
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"The pen and the sword serve the same master: truth."
José de San Martín
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"In the crucible of conflict, the true nature of men is revealed."
José de San Martín
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"The voice of conscience is louder than the roar of armies."
José de San Martín
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"In the face of tyranny, silence is complicity."
José de San Martín
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"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to abandon comfortable lies."
Simón Bolívar
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"The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is."
Antonio Gramsci
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"Truth emerges through struggle and dialogue, not through proclamation."
Antonio Gramsci
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"Truth is a thing of this world"
Michel Foucault
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"Visibility is a trap"
Michel Foucault
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"Each society has its own truth regime"
Michel Foucault
"One basis for a lasting peace is the knowledge of the truth."
Friedrich Engels
"Truth alone is revolutionary."
Friedrich Engels
"Truth emerges through dialectical process."
Friedrich Engels
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"Truth is the most revolutionary force in human affairs."
Michel Bakunin
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"Truth is the most revolutionary thing of all."
Emma Goldman
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"Truth cannot be suppressed indefinitely by those in power."
Peter Kropotkin
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"A just cause needs no grand rhetoric; its truth speaks for itself."
Simón Bolívar
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"I have found that the simplest truths are often the most profound."
Simón Bolívar
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"The voice of the people is the voice of truth."
Simón Bolívar
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"The time is always right to do what is right."
Karl Marx
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"Give a man a mask and he will tell the truth."
Karl Marx
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"All truth is revolutionary."
Antonio Gramsci
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"Real facts have a way of dissolving the most elegant theories."
Antonio Gramsci