#rut

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#aimed #being #collective #confrontation #faced

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #brute #i #magic #only

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#makes #must #see #situation #things

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. ↗

— Holly Near

#interested #keep #ourselves #relative #sucked

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dangerous #foes #lies #more #than

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#humble #let us #little #may #perhaps

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#being #body #discussions #great #greatest

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#country #song #three #truth

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#beautiful #even #grotesque #honest #me