Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 8

• Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.786, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

  Albert Finney

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.

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• The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Government, Unions

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• The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

  Newt Gingrich

  Islam, Way, Serious

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• To tell the truth is revolutionary.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Revolutionary, Truth Is

  Antonio Gramsci (1957). “The Open Marxism of Antonio Gramsci: Translated and Annotated by Carl Marzani”

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• I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Atheist, Liars, Artist

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.9, Penguin

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• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  Sammy Hagar

  Lying, Two, Judging

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• I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Book, Tricky, Slippery

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• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Liars, Lying, Keys

  "What I Would Tell a Son," Family Weekly, July 14, 1963.

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• Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

  Anthony Hope

  People, Truth And Falsehood, Promoting

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• The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Friendship, Doe, Joints

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• I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

  Mother Jones

  Not Afraid, Please, Pens

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• To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

  June Jordan

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Profound

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• In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

  June Jordan

  Way, Serious, Really Deep

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• There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

  June Jordan

  Two, Worry, Way

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• Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

  June Jordan

  Political, Brilliant, Poetry Is

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• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  Eartha Kitt

  Country, People, Answers

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• A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Bullying, Fear, Play

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• There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

  Ed Koch

  Enemy, Trying, Want

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• Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. May 1999.

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• If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

  Tony Kushner

  Artist, Past, Capacity

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• Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

  Johann Lamont

  Challenges, Confronting

  "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.

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• The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Work Out, Movement

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• I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

  T. E. Lawrence

  People, Ordinary, Artistic

  "T.E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters", book edited By Malcolm Brown. "Books: The Hero Our Century Deserved" by Paul Gray, content.time.com. May 15, 1989.

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