John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Source: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, Berkeley Hills Books (2000) p. 178
“The truth is not meant to be balanced or filtered out. You are only allowed to deliver it the way it is.”
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Larisa Alexandrovna (1971) Ukrainian-American journalist, essayist, poet
Et Tu The Press Club? http://agonist.org/story/2005/4/19/135355/148.
“It is not up to us to deliver judgments. Only God will be able to tell the truth.”
Licio Gelli (1919–2015) Italian financier, liaison with Nazi Germany, P2 grandmaster, involved in many scandals
[Hooper, John, Licio Gelli obituary, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/29/licio-gelli, 16 August 2018, The Guardian, December 29, 2015]
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
Fraternity lecture delivered in Boston (4 October 1859), published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips (1884), p. 245
1850s
“I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Source: Handle with Care
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 528.
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Saint's Progress (1919)
Context: "I cannot explain. There are things that I can't make clear, because you are wilfully blind to all that I believe in. For what do you imagine we are fighting this great war, if it is not to reestablish the belief in love as the guiding principle of life?"
Laird shook his head. "We are fighting to redress a balance, which was in danger of being lost."
"The balance of power?"
"Heavens! — no! The balance of philosophy."
Pierson smiled. "That sounds very clever, George; but again, I don't follow you."
"The balance between the sayings: 'Might is Right,' and 'Right is Might.' They're both half-truth, but the first was beating the other out of the field. All the rest of it is cant, you know. And by the way, sir, your Church is solid for punishment of the evildoer. Where's mercy there? Either its God is not merciful, or else it doesn't believe in its God.