truth

"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none."

"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!"

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

"Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away."

"I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?"

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive."

"I think most are too afraid to see the truth."

"To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier."

"Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth."

"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else."

"The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie."

"I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit."

"I would argue that unless the two people are in love, all sex is bad sex, because why eat cotton candy when you can have edible clouds? Sure, it seems sweet at the time, but that’s just a carnival and carnal rush and wears off quickly. But love adds an extra dimension that takes an earthy thing like sex and makes it absolutely heavenly."

"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them."

"...oppression is as American as apple pie..."

"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it."

"I hate when people say 'I see'. It doesn't mean anything and I think it's hostile. Whenever anyone tells me 'I see' I think they're really saying 'Fuck you'."

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."