38 Quotes Tagged: truth-telling

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It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Howard Zinn, American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)

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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.

I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values

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