#ruth

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#children #decade #funding #last #machinery

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#i #iron #legs #rust #starting

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. ↗

— James Callaghan

#boots #got #halfway #lie #round

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies. ↗

— David Allan

#gain #hurt #lies #satisfaction #than

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. ↗

— Albert Camus

#condition #cost #friendship #how #nothing

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#die #dies #ever #goodness #in the past

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#happened #i #percent #stand #truth

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#fall #i #support #supported #truth

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dispute #doubt #ease #fact #ignorance

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest