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• Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
  When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
  And the man who dares to tell the truth,
  Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

  George Francis Train

  Peace, Fear, Truth

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• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Book, Teaching

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• Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?

  William T. Vollmann

  Religious, Angel, Letters

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.36, Penguin

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• I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Angel, Devil, Alliances

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth Is, Norm, Truth And Falsehood

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Miracle, Mystery, Priests

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• The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Victory, Tragedy

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• Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Truth Is, Humans

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• There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

  Tom Stoppard

  Truth, Truth And Falsehood

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Invention of Love”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Law, Names

  "Rebellion".

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• Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

  Amelia Bloomer

  Race, Doctrine, Concerned

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• Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Long, Alive

  "Harper Lee says claim that new memoir has her blessing is 'a falsehood'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Pyramids, Hatred

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• When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Political, Honor, Progress

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• Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Errors, People

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.94

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• Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

  Tryon Edwards

  Brother, Truth, Honesty

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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• Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Yield, Quotations

  "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays (The Ways of Paradox)". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1966.

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• Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Evil, Deceit

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.219, OUP Oxford

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• It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Deceit, Deceiving

  "Pro Murena". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXX), November 63 BC.

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• So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned on inciting the American public against Iraq and pushing them to accept the American administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli, as if it were the solution or the necessary rescue that would allow American citizens to live in security and stability, after what they had gone through in the September 11 attacks.

  Naji Sabri

  Lying, Iraq, Long

  "Saddam's letter to U.N. says U.S. wants oil". www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  David Rice

  Lying, Artist, Men

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• Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

  Anne Mallory

  Easy, Foolhardy

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• Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Soul, Guilt

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.305, Macmillan

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• It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

  George H. Smith

  Men, Atheism, May

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books

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• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  Albert Pike

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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