Epeli Hau'ofa Quotes
One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
Rabih Alameddine
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Adam Clarke
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
Carl Bernstein
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
Ann Voskamp
I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
Marianne Faithfull
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
Kent Conrad
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.
Ameen Rihani
To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
Mary Oliver
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
Georges Bataille
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
Thomas A. Edison
I like to work hard and play hard.
Alan J. Dixon
Persecutions of these heterodoxies ... do not account for the unusually quick victory of Hinduism. Favorable political circumstances contributed to the victory. Decisive, however, was the fact that Hinduism could provide an incomparable religious support for the legitimation interest of the ruling strata.
Max Weber
One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.
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