Denying The Truth Quotes:

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Truth, Honesty, Men, Hard Truths, Denied

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Truth, Denial, Situation, Denying The Truth

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

- Josh Lanyon

topic: Real, Lying, Barricades, Denying The Truth, Real Courage

The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled is by denial, by denying the truth of the documents that have leaked. By attempting to show them as fraudulent, as bogus of some sort. There has been a very large disinformation and misinformation effort around this whole area. And one must wonder, how better to hide something out in the open than just to say, 'It isn't there. You're deceiving yourself if you think this is true.' And yet, there it is right in front of you.

- Edgar Mitchell

topic: Thinking, Government, Effort, Flying Saucers, Deceiving Yourself

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

- Ernest Becker

topic: Men, Mad, Cost, Denying The Truth

We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

- Neil Sheehan

topic: Country, War, Winning, Moral Outrage, Denying The Truth