Quotes about Truth to Power

Speak truth to power. Votes: 4

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares? Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power, Votes: 3

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power. Votes: 3

I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power." Votes: 3

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power. Votes: 3

When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst Votes: 3

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. Votes: 3

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. Votes: 2

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. Votes: 2

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. Votes: 2

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press. Votes: 2

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. Votes: 2

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. Votes: 0

... the unarmed power of naked truth. Votes: 0

See now the power of truth. Votes: 0

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. Votes: 0

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes. Votes: 0

The power of art is the power of truth. Votes: 0

The truth is that love and power go together. Votes: 0

Truth in our ideas means their power to work. Votes: 0

Real power comes not from hate, but from truth. Votes: 0

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa. Votes: 0

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity. Votes: 0

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. Votes: 0

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. Votes: 0

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth. Votes: 0

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie. Votes: 0

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. Votes: 0

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power. Votes: 0

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth Votes: 0

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that. Votes: 0

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town. Votes: 0

If the truth is with you, no power can knock you down! Votes: 0

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth. Votes: 0

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love. Votes: 0

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. Votes: 0

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression. Votes: 0

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path Votes: 0

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. Votes: 0

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Votes: 0

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth. Votes: 0

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path. Votes: 0

There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice Votes: 0

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men. Votes: 0

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power. Votes: 0

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power. Votes: 0

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty. Votes: 0

Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power. Votes: 0

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right. Votes: 0

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. Votes: 0

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter. Votes: 0

Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. Votes: 0

Truth is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally. Votes: 0

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Votes: 0

Our power as Christians is the power of the truth in a world full of lies. Votes: 0

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. Votes: 0

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth. Votes: 0

The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power Votes: 0

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power Votes: 0

Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. Votes: 0

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power. Votes: 0

The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around. Votes: 0

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it. Votes: 0

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job. Votes: 0

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering. Votes: 0

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world. Votes: 0

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. Votes: 0

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. Votes: 0

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. Votes: 0

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Votes: 0

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth Votes: 0

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. Votes: 0

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. Votes: 0

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. Votes: 0

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. Votes: 0

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. Votes: 0

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. Votes: 0

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them. Votes: 0

Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates! Votes: 0

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. Votes: 0

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires. Votes: 0

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. Votes: 0

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. Votes: 0

God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change. Votes: 0

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. Votes: 0

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. Votes: 0

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth. Votes: 0

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. Votes: 0

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Votes: 0

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. Votes: 0

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. Votes: 0

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. Votes: 0

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses. Votes: 0

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false. Votes: 0

Tell of His wondrous faithfulness, and sound his power abroad; sing the sweet promise of His grace, the love and truth of God. Votes: 0

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message. Votes: 0

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions... Votes: 0

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. Votes: 0

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood. Votes: 0

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away. Votes: 0

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands. Votes: 0

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. Votes: 0

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great. Votes: 0

Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love. Votes: 0

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . . Votes: 0

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth. Votes: 0

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. Votes: 0

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. Votes: 0

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Votes: 0

The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible. Votes: 0

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow. Votes: 0

I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth. Votes: 0

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary. Votes: 0

The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power Votes: 0

The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth. Votes: 0

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power. Votes: 0

God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power. Votes: 0

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere. Votes: 0

I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. Votes: 0

We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us. Votes: 0

I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. Votes: 0

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. Votes: 0

Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth. Votes: 0

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute. Votes: 0

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ... Votes: 0

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light. Votes: 0

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth. Votes: 0

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you. Votes: 0

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind? Votes: 0

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. Votes: 0

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates. Votes: 0

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails. Votes: 0

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous. Votes: 0

The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle - ādhāra - and transform it. Votes: 0

My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable. Votes: -1