The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.