
„I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.“
— John Milton English epic poet 1608 - 1674
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
— John Milton English epic poet 1608 - 1674
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
— Publilio Siro Latin writer 100
Sentences, Maxim 232
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
— James Alefantis American chef and restaurateur
2016 interview http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985
— Godwin, Earl of Wessex Anglo-Saxon nobleman; son of Wulfnoth Cild
Misattributed, The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (trans. Thomas Forester), Book VI
Godwin supposedly said this just before he choked to death on a piece of bread at the table of King Edward "the Confessor", but the story is very doubtful.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, Context: In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. It is supported by Southern segregationists who are trying to keep us from achieving our civil rights and our right of equal job opportunity. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone…Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote.
Speaking on right-to-work laws in 1961, as quoted in Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition (January 1986)
— Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
— Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005
General sources, Context: A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.
Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)
— William Shakespeare, Othello, Othello
Othello (1603–4), Iago, Act II, scene iii.