Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in…

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

— Richard Whately

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long…

— Bliss Carman

Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in…

— John F. Kennedy

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

— Saadi

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with…

— Richard Whately

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a…

— Richard Whately

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee…

— Nawal El Saadawi

We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and…

— Ann Druyan

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by…

— Slavoj Žižek

For my whole life I have dedicated myself to those who have been subjected to injustice. I've conducted investigations and written in newspapers about…

— Dacia Maraini

The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make…

— Orestes Brownson

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with…

— Hazel Henderson

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on…

— Michael Medved