Truth Quotes – Insights on Reality and Honesty

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

Henry Louis Mencken

"People can play many roles and be subjectively convinced that each one is their true self. In reality, however, they play each role based on their own ideas of what those around them expect of them. And for many people—if not most—the true personality is completely overshadowed by the false one."

Erich Fromm

"It is better to be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie."

Unknown

"Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event"

Walter Lippmann

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre."

Henry Louis Mencken

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Oscar Wilde

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . ."

Flannery O’Connor

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

Christopher Hitchens

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

Henry Louis Mencken

"When you’re happy, you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics."

Frank Ocean

"Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life."

Bruce Lee

"Mental slavery is the worst form of Slavery. It gives you the illusion of freedom, makes you trust, love and defend your oppressor while making an enemy of those who are trying to free you or open your eyes."

Words Of Wisdom

"In life, a decent person has so many ways to get ahead. A bad guy with the same smarts and drive has all those same ways open to them, but also some others that a decent person wouldn't go down. So, they have more chances to get ahead. As a result of this negative selection of character, the higher social classes become enriched with scoundrels. The better and more influential a social class is, the worse its average ethical level becomes. Only this circumstance can explain why the world has not been a paradise for at least five thousand years. One must know this if one wants to understand world history."

Hermann Julius Oberth

"The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain the freedom of life by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death. Evil is the master of deceit. The objective of evil is not violence, but obedience. The purpose of violence is to compel obedience. Its design is the destruction of freedom. Whether submitting to authority and obeying, or allowing it to destroy you physically, you will have lost your freedom. The only way to maintain freedom is to fight tyranny at all times and at all costs."

Jeremy Locke

"The eyes are useless when the mind is blind."

Unbekannt

"In the long run, even the most efficiently organized propaganda can do nothing against the truth."

Albert Schweitzer

"One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts."

Benjamin Franklin

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."

Albert Einstein