Eugene V. Debs Quotes

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

Eugene V. Debs

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• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Truth
  • Literature
  • Economics

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• Songwriters tell the truth.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Truth
  • Tell
  • Songwriters

• To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Truth
  • Style
  • Generation

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Truth

• Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Truth
  • Language
  • Everyone

• Facts are many, but the truth is one.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Truth Is

• I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Best

• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Easy

• Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

  

  Tacitus
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Uncertainty

• The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Desire

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Truth

• Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Discipline

• The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Mysterious

• How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Ambition
  • Devil

• Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Political

• The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Truth
  • Dangerous
  • Rogue