Equivocation Quote by Honore de Balzac

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have…

— Mario Cuomo

If things are said maliciously, and they're meant to hurt, then that's the sort of thing we need to try and stamp out.

— Ricky Whittle

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

— Thomas Hobbes

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

— Thomas Malthus

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the…

— Gautama Buddha

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some…

— Houston Stewart Chamberlain

“If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she—this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”—deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate”…

— Simon Doonan

Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

— A. E. Housman

A small unkindness is a great offence.

— Hannah More

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

— Francis Bacon