But to most of us society shows us not its face and eye, but its side and its back.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

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

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

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.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

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

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

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

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.