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Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

Errors are many, truth is unique.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Haters saying they wanna defeat us, they don't hate us they wanna be us. Truth is you can't join us or beat us.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

I cannot agree with those who say that they have 'new truth' to teach. The two words seem to me to contradict each other; that which is new is not true. It is the old that is true, for truth is as old as God himself.

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.