He dispensed anti-social messages - pretending to be a psychotic killer or announcing, "Everybody shut up and leave me alone" - declared "Truth is out of style" and envisioned an apocalypse.
The first is that it gives a privileged status to truth in that it declares truth to be the ultimate goal at which it aims.
Superiors governed by declaring truths, not revealing shameful secret, and the maintenance of the myth of moral rectitude became more important than rectitude itself.
Beauty is truth, Keats declared, and truth beauty.
A plea was offered to God: "If this man is innocent of the charge from which he seeks to clear himself, he will take this fiery iron in his hand and appear unharmed; if he is guilty, let your most just power declare that truth in him, so that wickedness may not conquer justice but falsehood always be overcome by the truth".
Suffering from laryngitis, she managed to declare: "The truth never sleeps.
Whether she was playing the martyr to the paparazzi or going on talkshows to declare "The truth will come out and my name will be cleared", she was carving out a niche for herself as the designer martyr.
She is said to have told friends that she had chosen that name because she felt she had been selected to travel across the land "to declare the truth to the people". Even before the outbreak of the Civil War, she had traveled thousands of miles lecturing against slavery in many states.
I declare my truth each and every single day and it's the BEST affirmation in the world.
With kindness in our hearts, and firmness in our convictions, we must declare the truth of His word, not the popular preferences of the world.
More and more individuals now have more ways than ever before to declare necessary truths.
