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Speak truth to power. -- Milan Kundera
I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares? -- George Lois
I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power. -- Craig Newmark
I will never shrink from speaking truth to power, -- Elizabeth May
The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power. -- Mary Robinson
I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power." -- Noam Chomsky
The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power. -- Salman Rushdie
When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst -- Jeremy Hammond
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. -- Robert Mankoff
If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power. -- Warren G. Bennis
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will? -- Edward Abbey
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power. -- Thomas Sowell
One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge. -- Barry Sanders
It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat. -- Jill Stein
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust. -- Craig Newmark
When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty. -- Will Hermes
Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians. -- Marie Colvin
I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country. -- Cindy Sheehan
The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power. -- Leymah Gbowee
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed. -- Sara Harrison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. -- James Madison
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. -- Jules Renard
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. -- Ice Cube
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press. -- Henry Reed
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. -- Frederick Law Olmsted
What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it. -- Daniel Keys Moran
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. -- Boris Pasternak
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. -- Rush Limbaugh
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. -- Sylvester Stallone
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth. -- Edward St Aubyn
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. -- Gustave Courbet
But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power. -- John Nelson Darby
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. -- Henry A. Wallace
As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit. -- Monica Johnson
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress. -- Terry Eagleton
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. -- Alexandra Kerry
See now the power of truth. -- Galileo Galilei
... the unarmed power of naked truth. -- Boris Pasternak
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes. -- Ameen Rihani
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. -- Samuel Johnson
My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Truth in our ideas means their power to work. -- William James
Real power comes not from hate, but from truth. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
The power of art is the power of truth. -- Julian Beck
The truth is that love and power go together. -- Susan Jeffers
I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa. -- George Saunders
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. -- Paul Krugman
There is a deep power in words that speak the truth -- P. C. Cast
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie. -- Allen Ginsberg
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. -- George A. Smith
The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity. -- Bill Cosby
The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth. -- Henry Rollins
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. -- Margaret Lee Runbeck
Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that. -- Terry Goodkind
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love. -- Michael Landon
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. -- Aleister Crowley
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression. -- Ken Wilber
Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth. -- Longchenpa
In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town. -- Richard John Neuhaus
If the truth is with you, no power can knock you down! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. -- Edward Abbey
Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth. -- Joseph Sobran
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path -- Marshall Fritz
True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power. -- T.F. Hodge
There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice -- P. C. Cast
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men. -- Madame de Stael
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. -- Werner Herzog
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty. -- John Pierrakos
Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter. -- Neil T Anderson
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power. -- Pythagoras
As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power. -- James Rozoff
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power -- Samuel Johnson
The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth. -- Michael Novak
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. -- Walter Lippmann
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power -- Susan Wiggs
Our power as Christians is the power of the truth in a world full of lies. -- Justin Steckbauer
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. -- Wole Soyinka
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. -- Michel Foucault
Truth is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it. -- Ann Brashares
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power. -- Chogyam Trungpa
The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around. -- Rhonda Byrne
We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world. -- Dalai Lama
Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering. -- Toba Beta
We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job. -- David Remnick
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. -- Twyla Tharp
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. -- Richard Dawkins
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. -- Cal Thomas
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. -- Boris Pasternak
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. -- Andrew Solomon
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth -- Boris Pasternak
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. -- Henry James
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. -- Herbert Marcuse
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. -- William Hazlitt
Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates! -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires. -- Sarah-Patton Boyle
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. -- C. S. Lewis
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. -- Charles George Gordon
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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. -- Thomas Jefferson
God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change. -- Melody Beattie
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. -- Criss Jami
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. -- Herodotus
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. -- Albert Schweitzer
Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. -- Khalil
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. -- Eliza Griswold
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. -- Denis Donoghue
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. -- Ted Nugent

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