Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values
Jacob BronowskiTag: dissent truth-telling lesion
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
Catherine of SienaTag: fear truth dissent freedom-of-speech truth-telling
Even bitches can get a break in life.
Suzanne WrightTag: truth-telling hard-knock-life
Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them."
"They do. You just can't see them right," Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. "All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line and be peered at and inspected? We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say, lines on maps are silly. Where you live, the awful machinery is smaller, harder to see. Less honest, that's all. Whereas Rupert here? He's as honest as they come. Does what it says on the box.
Tag: travel truth-telling authority obedience customs
Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don’t get in their way without expecting to be hurt.
Patricia BriggsTag: inspirational truth-telling practicality-for-intellectuals
Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all.
Bertha: What's that?
Socrates: Philosophy.
Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here.
Socrates: Where are they?
Bertha: In the philosophy department.
Socrates: Philosophy is not department.
Bertha: Well, we have philosophers.
Socrates: Are they dangerous?
Bertha: Of course not.
Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.
Tag: philosophy truth-telling seeking
Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code.
Kristen AshleyTag: truth-telling
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
Criss JamiTag: truth writing writers people philosophy communication expression emotions philosopher ideas disapproval truth-telling controversy prophetic prophecy tension prophet prophesy ice-breaking articulation articulate
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George OrwellTag: truth-telling
Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken
M.T. AndersonTag: truth-telling
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