UN Address (1999)
Context: For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.
Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.
Those of us who are living today can influence the future of civilization. We can influence whether our planet will drift into chaos and violence, or whether through a monumental educational and political effort we will achieve a world of peace under a system of law where individual violators of that law are brought to justice.
“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.”
Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.
Book I, Ch. 26
Essais (1595), Book I
Variant: I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
2010s, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman – A Profile (2011)
“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”
Source: Sigan Ŭn Hangsang Mirae Ro Hŭrŭnŭnʼga: Hokʻing Paksa Ŭi Chaemi Innŭn Chʻoesin Ujuron
“Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/”
Interview (16 August 1990), quoted in The Times (17 August 1990), p. 1
“Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter VII
For a Very Little Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Bartlett's notes this work to be written by Ann Taylor.
Source: House of Leaves
