I Quotes
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“If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.”
“If 'truth' is an 'unveiled reality,' then my truth may not be your truth yet!”
Source: A Cup of Hope for the Day
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
“If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.”
Source: Killosophy
“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”
“If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.”
“If truth is not to be spoken, Sir, in a government, calling itself free, least it should be understood by the people, who are governed; and prevent their freely supplying the oil, that facilitates the movement of the cumbrous machine—If facts, which cannot be denied, be repressed; and reason, which cannot be controverted, be stifled; the time is not far distant, when such a country may say, adieu liberty!”
Source: Desmond
“If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”
“If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.”
“If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.”
“If truth is the best form of honor, success is the best form of justice.”
Source: Dreaming of Hiraeth
“If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.”
Source: The Great War and Modern Memory
“If truth is to be victorious in her conflict of forces, she must herself first become a force and appoint some drive to be her champion in the realm of phenomena; for drives are the only motive forces in the sensible world. If she has hitherto displayed so little of her conquering power, this was due, not to the intellect that was powerless to unveil her, but to the heart that closed itself against her, and to the drive that refused to act on her behalf.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
“If truth ruined a relationship… maybe it was built on lies.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“If truth seems derogatory, that truth is filth.”
“If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.”
“If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.”
“If truth were to be told, how often is being ‘lost’ a result of the decision I have made to never be ‘found’?”
“If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.”
Source: Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith
“If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.”
“If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.”
“If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.”
“If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.”
“If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.”
Source: Salvation Crystal Clear
“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.”
“If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.”
“If Twitter, Youtube & Facebook will be honest; if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them”
“If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.”
“If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.”
“If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.”
“If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.”
“If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“If two deer meet in a jungle, they silently eat the grass or play. I am this... You did this... How dare you say that... All these arguments take place only when one of them is not a deer. And these arguments will reach no conclusion.
They should either silently accept each other or silently walk away. Silence is the most natural thing in both the cases.”
“If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.”
“If two evils are fighting each other, would you want one of them to win? No, you would want both of them to be defeated!”
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”
“If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“If two hostile People find out that they are my Friends, they can consider each other as Friends.”
“If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.”
Source: The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second
“If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.”
“If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.”
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.”
“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”
“If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.”
“If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.”
“If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.”