Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963) http://pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org/?page_id=6
2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963) http://pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org/?page_id=6
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) 22nd and 24th president of the United States
Letter to the Democratic Convention (17 August 1884).
Context: A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Contented labor is an element of national prosperity. Ability to work constitutes the capital and the wage of labor the income of a vast number of our population, and this interest should be jealously protected. Our workingmen are not asking unreasonable indulgence, but as intelligent and manly citizens they seek the same consideration which those demand who have other interests at stake. They should receive their full share of the care and attention of those who make and execute the laws, to the end that the wants and needs of the employers and the employed shall alike be subserved and the prosperity of the country, the common heritage of both, be advanced.
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic
Page 269.
Stepping Westward (1965)
Ben Aaronovitch book Rivers of London
Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 10, “The Blind Spot” (p. 210)
John Pilger (1939) Australian journalist
John Pilger, "Blair has made Britain a target" 21 September 2001 http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,555452,00.html
“How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher