Quote by Graham Greene
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! – Graham Greene

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Peace
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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Corruption
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. – Francis Bacon

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Its no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain

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Truth

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. – Emile Zola

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Truth

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

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