Awful Truth/Quotes

"One description given by some philosophers when asked to describe the true nature of the Imperium is that, beyond its teeming masses, uncountable worlds and incalculable might, it is best described as a vast web of secrets.
Secrets, and to greater extent ignorance of the truth of things, are paramount to the Imperium's very existence. Knowledge is a calcified and restricted thing. One simple reason for this restriction is that it is better that people have faith than facts, for the facts allow little room for hope and realization of the true horrors that confront humanity would only lead to destruction and utter despair."

—Warhammer 40,000

"I looked for the truth. Found it. Didn't like it. Wish to hell I could forget it."

—Alex Mercer, Prototype

"Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is just energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."

—Bill Hicks

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

—Jessep, A Few Good Men

"You're trying to understand. I told you your brother had been killed. And yet, here he stands, in the very shadow of the man you came here to destroy. You came here to avenge his death. You came here to save mankind. And you see now, you cannot do both."

—Dr. Light, The Stand (Man or Machine)

Big Momma: What's all this about?
Gooper: Doc, Big Mama wants the whole truth about the report we got from the clinic today.
Maggie: The truth, the truth! Everybody keeps hollering about the truth. Well, the truth is as dirty as lies!

—Cat on a Hot Tin Roof