#the truth

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

#because #involves #poetry #political #political act

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. ↗

— June Jordan

#deep #each #feel #get #herself

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#being #ever #human #human being #i

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #gods #often #one thing #pray

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#democrats #lies #republicans #stop #telling

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there. ↗

— Howard Dean

#brothers #chief #commander #daughters #die

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth. ↗

— Paula Jones

#american #american people #because #believe #did

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#advantage #believes #ever #great #great advantage

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. ↗

— Eric Carr

#i #just #lie #own #people