Speak Truth Quotes
30 quotes by 27 authors
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If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
— Diogenes
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
— Edward Abbey
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It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young…
— David Gergen
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly…
— William Hazlitt
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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
— Samuel Johnson
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When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst
— Jeremy Hammond
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Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless.…
— Suzy Kassem
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If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let…
— Charles Churchill
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John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in…
— Richard Corliss
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Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
— Orrin Woodward
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The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.…
— Terry Eagleton
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I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have…
— Leymah Gbowee
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Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl…
— Harold Bell Wright
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We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have…
— Frederick Buechner
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Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances…
— Frances Hardinge
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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
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The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive…
— Sara Harrison
Who Wrote These Speak Truth Quotes
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