Truth Consequences Quotes

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Know that a lie is not haram [wrong] in itself, but only because the evil conclusions to which it leads the hearer, making him believe something that is not really the case.... If a lie is the only way of obtaining a good result, it is permissible.... We must lie when truth leads to unpleasant results.

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

All knowledge hurts.

To be direct and honest is not safe.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.