The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.
The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.
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In war, truth is the first casualty.
It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
In war, the first casualty is truth.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Truth is always War’s first victim, the old saying went.
Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
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Despite all the positive psychological attributes of hatred we have outlined, hatred destroys finally the core of the life of the hater. While it lasts, burning in white heat, its effect seems positive and dynamic. But at last it turns to ash, for it guarantees a final isolation from one’s fellows. It blinds the individual to all values of worth, even as they apply to himself and to his fellows. Hatred bears deadly and bitter fruit. It is blind and nondiscriminating.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Their political reactions express rather a profound if largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways — a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive evidence both from clinical techniques and from their own modes of expression.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
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