I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“In our foreign policy as in our own national life we need less fanfare, less stagecraft and circumventing. We need to talk… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To be yourself is in many ways, is to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Although she was not a politician, my grandmother gave me the most important lesson I've ever received and one I carry with… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same truth! That shows… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Forgive him who ever wrongs you; join the person who cuts you off; do good to that person who does evil to… — Ahmed Abougoush Copy Share Image
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“When the Marxists say, as they sometimes do, that Marx has proved the uselessness of a counter cycle policy and of similar… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things… — David Gergen Copy Share Image
“GOD, thank you for good friends who will speak the truth that is like soothing medicine. I don’t always want to hear… — Cheri Fuller Copy Share Image
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image