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  • Official truths are often powerful illusions. -- John Pilger
  • Official truth is not actual truth. -- Lord Acton
  • Official history is believing the murderers at their word. -- Simone Weil
  • Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it -- Peter Bauer
  • Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. -- Simone Weil
  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war. -- Bill Vaughan
  • The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. -- Frederic Chopin
  • We can reveal that John's 85 That's a well known fact Telling Kathy's age would be a breach Of the Official Secrets Act -- John Walter Bratton
  • ...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not. -- Clive Ponting
  • Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. -- Gregory Bateson
  • Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code. -- Bertrand Russell
  • I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. -- William Allingham
  • I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. -- William Allingham
  • We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. -- Michael Parenti
  • Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong. -- David Icke
  • Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it. -- Franz Kafka
  • Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you. -- Robert Reich
  • The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas. -- James Agee
  • Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. -- Michelle Malkin
  • Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions. -- Peter York
  • It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know). -- James Gleick
  • Mentor's Official and Complete Procedural Handbook on Initial Succubus Intake and Probationary Period (Abridged). "Abridged?" I spun toward Jerome. "Tell me you're getting back at me for the time I accused you of wearing Old Spice." "That one's still coming," said the demon. "This one's for real. -- Richelle Mead
  • There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official. -- Gloria Reuben
  • As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say. -- Jorge Ramos
  • I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world. -- Dalai Lama
  • Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. -- Ernest Istook
  • In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit. -- Brendan I. Koerner
  • The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. -- Paul Signac
  • No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. -- Al Smith
  • At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. -- Bernie Sanders
  • The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. -- George McGovern
  • In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be. -- Lou Holtz
  • I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body. -- Sloane Crosley
  • In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. -- Stewart Udall
  • As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function. -- Lindy Boggs
  • I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy. -- Nadine Velazquez
  • We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. -- Barbara Jordan
  • The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. -- Ma Jian
  • In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. -- Elliott Abrams
  • I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. -- Vera Brittain
  • I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region. -- Maurice Strong
  • I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. -- Ian Mckellen
  • We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' -- Ramez Naam
  • Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. -- Adam McKay
  • If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech. -- Ann Coulter
  • I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. -- Gunter Grass
  • Who grins in official circumstances? -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • I'm only a poor corrupt official. -- Claude Rains
  • Coffee is the official beverage of culture. -- Andrea Illy
  • The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always. -- Veronica Roth
  • The truth was stranger than the official fiction. -- Dean Koontz
  • For official purposes, these children do not exist. -- Robert Muchamore
  • I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. -- Daniel Handler
  • Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail. -- Rachel Vincent
  • America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. -- Matt Taibbi
  • It's official: cyber terror is the new yellowcake uranium. -- Kevin Poulsen
  • Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud. -- James Purdy
  • I'm so official, all I need is a whistle. -- Lil Wayne
  • Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. -- Ali Babacan
  • Meanwhile, the Bush dynasty comes to an official end. -- Chuck Todd
  • Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. -- Ron Nessen
  • I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter! -- I.B. Nosey
  • I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious. -- Larry Wall
  • Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness, -- Mia Couto
  • all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue. -- Isabel Burton
  • According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick. -- Stephen Colbert
  • Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue. -- Sophie Jordan
  • Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. -- William Zinsser
  • i want to make it official, i want to make it forever -- Emily Giffin
  • It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. -- Eric Holder
  • The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department. -- Mort Sahl
  • The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. -- George Washington
  • My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship... -- Rob Schwimmer
  • I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official! -- Cat Deeley
  • I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party. -- Niger Innis
  • Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. -- Bob Black
  • American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. -- Mitt Romney
  • The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged. -- Ann Coulter
  • You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant. -- William J. Clinton
  • A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. -- Elie Wiesel
  • When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention. -- Seth Klarman
  • Jacksonville's official bird is the butterfly. The butterfly is also Jacksonville's official flower. -- Jarod Kintz
  • State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal. -- Donald Trump
  • Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history -- Bruce Hicks
  • A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse. -- Pat Robertson
  • The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. -- G. Gordon Liddy
  • If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. -- Michael Schudson
  • The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life. -- Vincent Kartheiser
  • I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner. -- Donald Bren
  • If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state. -- Jan Brewer
  • A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit. -- Evan Esar
  • Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version. -- Carolyn See
  • After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish. -- Philip Kerr
  • Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. -- Eric Liu
  • My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans. -- Zakes Mda
  • English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. -- Ernest Istook
  • I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. -- Frederick William Borden
  • My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. -- Fritz Sauckel
  • In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. -- Aaron Klein
  • All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. -- Bertrand Russell
  • I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media. -- Dylan Penn
  • If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don't have a life. -- Dave Ramsey
  • McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
  • Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization. -- Tom Hayden
  • If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. -- Kate Zambreno
  • I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity. -- Kevin Drum
  • We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights. -- Samantha Power
  • And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. -- Cheryl Strayed
  • there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be. -- Gertrude Stein
  • It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. -- Gustave Courbet
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