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• When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

  Ray McGovern

  Country, War, Tyrants

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• Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, League, Soul

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• There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

  Brad Stine

  Truth, Differences, Knowing

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• I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

  Jacques Lacan

  Real, Way, Impossible

  "The Truth Was Always Revolutionary": Luc Rioual on Laurent Binet's The Seventh Function of Language", logger.believermag.com. August 11, 2017.

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• We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Leadership, Kings, Truth

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• Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do

  Rakim

  Honesty, Youth, Speak

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• When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.

  Teresa Giudice

  Issues, Speak, Approach

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• When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Opportunity, Important, Trying

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• If hell comes as a result of my speaking the truth, then let it come.

  Harry Lennix

  Hell, Results, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

  Herodotus

  Boys, Age, Three Things

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• A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

  Craig Newmark

  Erosion, People, Speak

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• Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

  August Sander

  Honesty, People, Speak

  August Sander (1976). “August Sander, 1876-l976”

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• Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Truth, People, Speak

  Joyce Carol Oates (1973). “Do with Me You Will”

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• Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

  John Tillotson

  Mean, Men, May

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• A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

  Richard Sibbes

  Men, May, Speak

  Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE BRUISED REED”, Lulu.com

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Sweet, Feelings, Levels

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• If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

  Andrew Young

  Littles, Controversy, Worth Living

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Children and fools always speak the truth

  Mark Twain

  Children, Fool, Speak

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.27, Book Tree

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• He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

  Periander

  Speak, Notorious, Made

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• We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak the truth. Border security is national security and we will not be admitting jihadists as refugees.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Borders, Border Security

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

  Dan Rather

  Comedian, Criticism, Vacuums

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• The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Roles, Speak

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• I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Silly, Way

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

  Edmund Burke

  Truth, Exercise, Men

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3863, Delphi Classics

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