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Unpleasant Truths Quotes

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. John Stockwell
Scott McClellan quote: "If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change..."
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. Scott McClellan
Quentin Crisp quote: "Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. Quentin Crisp
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
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine... Mercedes Lackey
You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that’s not your business. They should’ve trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies. John Steinbeck
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. C. S. Lewis
The ultimate source is probably the tendency in some of us, part of our psychological inheritance from our far-distant ancestors, the tendency to look for extreme solutions, absolute truths, abstract answers. All fanatics and fundamentalists share this tendency, which is so alien and unpleasing to the rest of us. The theory says they must do such-and-such, so they do it, never mind the human consequences, never mind the social cost, never mind the terrible damage to the fabric of everything... Philip Pullman
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell..."
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. Benjamin Disraeli
Lillian Hellman quote: "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman
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

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