“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.”
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
The Emperor's Old Clothes
“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.”
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
Michael A. Stackpole (1957) science fiction author
[Stackpole, http://members.tripod.com/~limsk/pulling.htm, "The Pulling Report", 2007-05-27]
Merrick Garland (1952) American judge
[2012, ACLU v. CIA, Merrick Garland, Oral arguments, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]; quote then excerpted in:
[Mike Scarcella, http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/03/dc-circuit-revives-public-records-suit-over-drone-documents.html, March 18, 2016, D.C. Circuit Revives Public Records Suit Over Drone Documents, March 15, 2013, The BLT]; quote then cited from this source subsequently in:
[March 18, 2016, The Quotable Merrick Garland: A Collection of Writings and Remarks, http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202752327128/The-Quotable-Merrick-Garland-A-Collection-of-Writings-and-Remarks, Zoe Tillman, The National Law Journal, March 16, 2016, 0162-7325]
Court opinions and media comments
Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
First lines
Variant translation (by David Wyllie): One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.
Source: The Metamorphosis (1915)
Edward German (1862–1936) English musician and composer
In a letter to his sister, describing his observations from a trip to Germany of the cult-like status given the Kaiser.
John Wycliffe English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church
As quoted in Typical English Churchmen (1909) by John Neville Figgis, p. 15
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/br-text.html (1812), st. 1