“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”
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“I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.”
“Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.”
“It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.”
“Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.”
“Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.”
“Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.”
“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”
“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”
“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”
“A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.”
“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.”
“I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”
“I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.”
“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”
“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.”
“We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.”
“Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.”
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.”