1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: Press briefing http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051108.html, November 8, 2005
“Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 361
“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.
And they do calm down.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
