Truth Quotes

"Truth is not outside power."

"The most revolutionary act one can undertake in a capitalist society is honest reporting."

"Ideology blinds us to what is plainly before our eyes."

"Truth is revealed through the clash of opposing views, not through suppression."

"Sincerity has a compelling power which no false statement can ever possess."

"The foundation of all happiness and tranquility is truth and sincerity."

"Every deviation from truth is a degradation of human intellect."

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition."

"To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter."

"The consciousness of man is determined by his social being."

"Criticism must be relentless, and must not fear its own conclusions."

"Consciousness follows existence; being determines consciousness."

"Traditional intellectuals believe they are independent of the dominant social group."

"Truth is the nursing mother of genuine virtue."

"The evidence that belief is real is that it produces action."

"The love of truth and the attempt to discover it are the only motives that can inspire a great reformer."

"Truth is the foundation of all other virtues."

"The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie, but the half-truth."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life."

"Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever."

"It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."

"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"A person shows himself most in what he does when he is left to do exactly as he pleases."

"Secrecy, being an evil, ought not to be unnecessarily created by government."

"Sincerity may be thus defined to be the reverse of dissimulation."

"The veil of secrecy is the friend of roguery."

"Publicity is the very soul of justice."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"The pretence of independence is a mere fiction."