One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to… — Barry Sanders Copy Share Image
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a second lieutenant working… — John F. Kelly Copy Share Image
When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do… — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And… — James Clapper Copy Share Image
When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations.… — Dean Burk Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image