William Faulkner Quotes

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner

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• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Compassion
  • Genuine

• Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Truth
  • Always

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Compassion

• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Afraid
  • Republican
  • Sides

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• 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

• My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Parents
  • Compassion
  • Affection

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Love
  • Support

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Truth
  • Balance
  • Kindness

• There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Truth
  • Find
  • Naked

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

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

  

  Tacitus
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Uncertainty

• You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Good
  • Truth

• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Stronger

• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Long
  • Science

• I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

  

  Marc Forgione
  • House
  • Thanksgiving

• It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Feel
  • Sorry

• Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

  

  Danah Boyd
  • History
  • Everybody
  • Give Me

• Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Truth
  • Compassion
  • Afraid