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- Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
- Lester Brown, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006
- It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), The Ability Congress - Washington D.C 1957
- Truth is a pathless land.
- Krishnamurti
- Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), NPR interview
- Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick
- Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
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