Sentence examples for cannot handle the truth from inspiring English sources
He says that is because America cannot handle the truth.
"The church still cannot handle the truth," he told the paper.
On this reading, Strauss suggests that the masses simply cannot handle the truth and are in need of a class of political elites who, while themselves pursuing the truth, support the noble lies necessary for any society to function.
If we follow out the logic of this, what such commentators are actually implying is that progressives the "strong"—may be right theologically, but the conservatives elsewhere the "weak"—simply cannot handle the truth right now.
And, these days we are witnessing a fierce battle between those who want to hide as much as they can, and those who want the public learn about what is being hidden; those who cannot handle the truth - at least not in public - and those who can.
Unlike Hollywood, where justice ultimately prevails based upon the truth patiently revealed, the reality is that the Chilcot Report will be relegated to the trash bin of history by people who simply cannot handle the truth, condemning the present generation, and the future, to make the same mistakes, over and over and over again.
