#truth

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#ball game #became #beyond #bowl #christmas

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#great #great power #greater #hope #i

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#anyone #gets #into #monopoly #only

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #belief #concern #enough #often

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #gods #often #one thing #pray

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#american #american people #campaigning #deserve #dogma

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

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#job #our #plainly #precisely #speak