A Quote by Voltaire

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

Pamela Meyer

The law still says you have to buy insurance. Remember, the mandates are still there. The fines are still there. Everything's still there if it isn't repealed in its present downward spiral, which everybody agrees is happening. Just like everybody agrees the Russians affected the election, everybody agrees that Obamacare is spiraling out of control.

Rush Limbaugh

When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

George S. Patton

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

George R. R. Martin

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Mo Udall

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

William Goldman

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

Gregory Maguire

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

Samuel E. Morison

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

Timothy Keller

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.