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“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

Truth Desire Belief Freedom Responsibility Knowledge Greater Materials Comfort Intelligent Population Dread Rulers Interfere

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.”

Men Truth Greater Integrity Approach Portions Display His Love Zeal Truth Love

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

“The greater the truth the greater the libel.”

Truth Greater Trust Libel

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.”

Problem Light Truth Evil Pleasure Views Darkness Greater Crime Honesty Majors Excellence Delight Point Of View Charm Identical

Book:120 days of sodom

Source: 120 days of sodom

“I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.”

Humans Long Has Beens Truth Views Greater Human Nature Circumstances Degrees Weight Regard Various Honour Probability Testimony Oath Conspiring

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.”

Facts Government Truth Half Democracy Greater Honesty Weapons Constant Excellence Intelligence Tension Arsenal Half Truth

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.”

Giving Children Home Truth Known Clear Greater Honest Happenings Our Children Clean Legacy Your Children Telling The Truth

Book:The Tao of Motherhood

Source: The Tao of Motherhood

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”

Stills Truth Certain Views Silence Opinion Greater Subjects Point Of View Practicals Totalitarianism Eloquent Propagandist Brave New World Technology

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world