A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
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.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.