The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
Truth be told, relying on 'one country, two systems' to preserve our values is a lost cause.
I've never been tied to one party or one candidate or even one institution. And that's true even with one church as a Christian. I'm committed to truth and justice.
