#ruth

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beauty #glory #humanity #knowledge #love

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#energy #enough #ethical #hardly #honor

We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#country #denying #did #felt #general

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#been #being #could #further #i

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right? ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#because #count #i #i always #old people

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#important #more #operations #quality #quantity

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ↗

— William Shenstone

#begins #ends #falsehood #itself #liar

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#family #matter #only #our #simple

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#come #facts #hate #i #into

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. ↗

— Nigel Short

#chess #got #kill #people #prepared