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"He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth."

"We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live ou…"

"The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly."

"What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is t…"

"Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process…"

"I tell the truth, but I don’t need to divulge everything."

"If a good and true Muslim cannot be a nationalist, how can a good and true Hindu be expected to be a nationalist."

"With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public."

"If I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good to either you or to myself. ...for the truth is that no man who goes to war with you or any other multitude, honestly str…"

"And 'speak truth unto power'? What does this mean? It means giving your best advice to superiors based on the best information available and objective analysis even when you know it may not be music t…"

"I knew that until I was ready to tell the truth as I saw it, I was no better than a politician- but I didn't know whether I would ever be brave enough to break ranks and speak my mind."

"Atman is an ever-present Reality. Yet, because of ignorance it is not realised. On the destruction of ignorance Atman is realised."

"If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true."

"Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-l…"

"From a correct Marxian point of view … all measures designed to restrain, to regulate and to improve capitalism were simply "petty-bourgeois" nonsense … True socialists should not place any obstacles …"

"The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas."

"Sometimes it feels like God backs away from you when you hit hard times, but that’s not true."

"True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard."

"Putting a grenade into a bunker had the satisfaction of doing grievous bodily harm to an enemy for whom I felt real hatred, and still do."

"From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare."