“He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.”
Source: The Godfather
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Mario Puzo53
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“No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.”
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L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
"Honest People Have Rights, Too" (8 February 1960).
Scientology Bulletins
“However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.”
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
Letter, Philadelphia, to Rachel Smithers (6 July 1794), published in The Autobiography of William Cobbett: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament, ch. 5, p. 57 (1933).
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
The establishing of a fact.
Pt. IV, ch. 4
Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Adam Smith book The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Section II, Chap. II.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Religions are for a day. They are the clouds. Humanity is the eternal blue. Religions are the waves of the sea. These waves depend upon the force and direction of the wind -- that is to say, of passion; but Humanity is the great sea. And so our religions change from day to day, and it is a blessed thing that they do. Why? Because we grow, and we are getting a little more civilized every day, -- and any man that is not willing to let another man express his opinion, is not a civilized man, and you know it. Any man that does not give to everybody else the rights he claims for himself, is not an honest man.
“I’ll tell you, nothing is so dangerous as ambition in a man who cares not who stands in his way.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The True Game, The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 3 (p. 48)
