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“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”

People Thinking May Lying Speak Gains Speak The Truth

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others.”

Should Ideas Values Individual Speak Speech Gains Concerned Direct Should Have Collectives Censorship Interchange Personal Values

Author:Charles Rembar

“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.”

Needs Moments Facts Culture Speak Language Hurt Loss Trouble Gains Species Poetry Is Celebration Endangered Species

Author:Erica Jong

“I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

“Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?”

World Doe Real Shows Age Jesus Speak Heaven Interest Materials Gains Treasure Goods Real World Mansions Personal Interest Treasures In Heaven

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.”

People Mean Country Government America Political Speak Masters Gains Ideals Servant American Government

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak up and gain some more rights, but what happened was there was a backlash. Why? Because we have the Salafists, Muslim Brothers, religious groups.”

Speak Religious Rights Happened Groups Brother Revolution Gains Backlash

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.”

“To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Use Able Speak Taught Gains

Book:Works: The laws of Fésole. A joy forever. Our fathers have told us. Inaugural address. Modern painters,v.1

Source: Works: The laws of Fésole. A joy forever. Our fathers have told us. Inaugural address. Modern painters,v.1

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.”

Ifs Men Giving Body Moving Speak Poor Nice Mystery Mountain Gains Notes Tongue Surrender Flames Prophecy Angle Fathom Move Mountains Posse Gongs Cymbals

Author:Benjamin Carson

“He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.”

Needs Persons Said Speak Hours Risk Gains Edges Scholar Heresy

Book:What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A

“Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.”

Giving Firsts Pain Speak Teaching Return Gains Humankind

Author:Hiromu Arakawa