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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege. – Plato	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. – Marcel Proust	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. – Desiderius Erasmus	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed. – Sanskrit Proverb	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. – Richter	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. – W.V.O. Quine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – William Shenstone	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. – Tyron Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another". – Cicero	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. – Michael Bakunin, God and State	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. – Georges Braque	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood. (Noli Me Tangere) – Dr. Jose Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for – Dag Hammarskjld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence. – Henri Frdric Amiel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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