"Official truth is not actual truth."

-- Lord Acton

#Truth Is Quotes

“Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.”
“The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key to what those words mean, the only way the average man can find out what is going on is to become a lawyer, or at least to study law, himself. All of which makes it very nice -- and very secure -- for the lawyers.”
“In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. ... It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.”
“Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.”
“The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.”
“The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”
“Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections â€” and it matters which ones get made and unmade.”
“It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.”

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