The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.