Truth Quotes

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

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"Slanderers and cowards always attack from behind with lies and innuendo."
Leon Trotsky
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"Betrayal is the price paid by those who seek compromise with the enemy."
Leon Trotsky
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"Truth is historical, not eternal or abstract."
Leon Trotsky
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"Truth is whatever serves the state"
Joseph Stalin
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"Truth is determined by authority"
Joseph Stalin
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"The masses have never thirsted after truth."
Benito Mussolini
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"Truth is what I decide it to be."
Benito Mussolini
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"A lie told often enough becomes the truth in the minds of those who hear it."
Vladimir Lenin
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"There are a terrible lot of lies about old age."
Winston Churchill
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
Winston Churchill
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"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Winston Churchill
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"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"The test of our individual loyalty is not the avoidance of offense to authoritarianism but how we face up to economic, political, and moral challenges of our time."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal if odd bits are omitted."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"A lie repeated becomes the truth only in the minds of the naive."
Leon Trotsky
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"A lie told often enough becomes accepted as truth by the masses."
Vladimir Lenin
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"A person's worth is measured not by their words but by their deeds."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Do what is right, not what is easy"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The greatest value we can give to our society is to be who we truly are"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Democracy cannot live without truth"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Loyalty to truth is the highest loyalty"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Truth is whatever serves the greater good."
Joseph Stalin
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"Truth serves the cause, not vice versa."
Joseph Stalin
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"Truth is what advances the revolution."
Joseph Stalin
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"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Benito Mussolini
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"Dishonesty is the easiest path, but honor demands difficulty."
Benito Mussolini
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"I am unmoved by the tears of the sentimental."
Benito Mussolini
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of the truth."
Mahatma Gandhi