| Our interconnectedness
on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is
that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United
States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer
them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.
-- Jeffrey
Sachs | 
|
"All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as
being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
 | Because
I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence
in the future of mankind.
-- Albert
Schweitzer |
It
is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings
and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized
truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for
every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time
is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before
it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has
life.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
| New
opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason,
then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
-- George Bernard Shaw
| 
|
"I
would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored
rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of
propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot
say we have the only truth."
-- Bishop
John Shelby Spong | 
|
Reformers
who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only
safe ground to stand upon.
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton The
moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth
that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the
divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 
|
The truth
will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
-- Gloria
Steinem | 
|
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I can't tell you how many times we'll run into a journalist and go, "Boy that's…I
wish we could be saying that. That's exactly the way we see it and that's exactly
the way we'd like to be saying that." And I always think, "Well, why don't you?"
-- Jon Stewart
|
Fear
grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
-- Dorothy Thompson
There
is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent
refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
-- Dorothy Thompson
| |
The lawyer's
truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
-- Henry
David Thoreau |
Unity
without verity is no better than conspiracy.
-- John Trapp
| Always tell the
truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
-- Mark
Twain When
in doubt, tell the truth.
-- Mark
Twain | 
|
In religion and
politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand,
and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the
questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners,
whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
-- Mark
Twain
As
long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire
There
are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as
whole truths that plays the devil.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
The
pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde
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