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Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. -- Quentin Crisp
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth. -- Ambrose Bierce
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies. -- Gautama Buddha
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. -- Scott McClellan
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily. -- Sarada Devi
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. -- John Stockwell
They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth. -- George Carlin
One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth. -- Adam Snowflake
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting. -- Eric Hoffer
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it. -- Jude Morgan
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. -- Eric Hoffer
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. -- Walter Lippmann
Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature. -- Piero Ferrucci
No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. -- Eric Hoffer
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded. -- Nathan Myhrvold
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. -- Frank Herbert
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. -- C. S. Lewis
The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things. -- David Brenner
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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