All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we’re alive.”

“Sherman Reilly Duffy of the pre-World War I CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL once told a cub reporter, ‘Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.’ Well, socially I fit in just fine between the whore and the bartender. Both are close friends. And I knew the world was round. Yet, as time went by I found myself confronted with the ugly suspicion that the world was, after all, flat and that there were things dark and terrible waiting just over the edge to reach out and snatch life from the unlucky, unwary wanderer.”

“Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?”

“A good speech is like a miniskirt–long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.”

“History engineered if the facts couldn’t be generally accepted.”

“Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.”

“Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.”

“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.”

“I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.”

“Whatsoever thing you believe strongly,it will be turned into truth within your mind.”

“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! – Javert to M. Madeleine”

“False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.”

“The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.”

“And it means snapshots, because that’s what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fossilized, set in paper and ink, instead of stone. Memorialized, for better or worse. This is who I was, and this, and this, and this, and that, and most times I look back and wince. I’m rarely kind to who I was. But other times, looking back is bittersweet. Sometimes, I’m even grateful to the me of then who left a snapshot for the me of now. Maybe I should let go and join those who pretend the past is past, but it’s a falsehood I’ve never learned to spin.”

“There must be repressed truth even in lies.”