#tru

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#bank #come #constitute #grenades #hand

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#good #much #others #trust

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. ↗

— Michael Musto

#been #bribery #deception #exhausted #few

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. ↗

— Michael Musto

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#center #clinton #coming #created #filtering

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#both #distressing #frequency #idols #literature

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#against #come #developed #did #economy

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#conviction #ethics #personal #science #truth

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

#life #more #peculiar #place #really

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#called #death #die #how #knew