#ruth

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bestow #common #common sense #destitute #favors

This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America. ↗

— Cory Booker

#barack #barack obama #ever #expand #generation

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#able #actual #comics #comment #decade

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#nobody #something #speaks #truth

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#american people #democracy #essence #free #know

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cold #continual #fear #lest #love

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

… on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité. ↗

— Voltaire

#life #truth #death

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#dull #exciting #life #speak #then