#falsehood

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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