Source: Noughts & Crosses
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”
As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Context: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
As quoted in “Anderson Offers Barter: Ideas for Votes” by Bernard Weinraub, in The New York Times (12 March 1980)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 197.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 16 “Labor” (p. 307).
“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Variant: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Source: Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 179.
