“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.
“A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.”
1940s, Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? (1948)
Context: The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.
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“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
Actually said by Thomas Cooper, a U.S. politician.
Misattributed
“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.”
Thomas More
(1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
Attributed in Lives That Made a Difference: An RSME Book for Schools (2011) by P. J. Clarke
“I accuse her of legalizing, on an enormous scale, licentiousness, fraud, cruelty and murder.”
William Lloyd Garrison
(1805–1879) American journalist
Address to the World Anti-slavery Convention, London (12 July 1833)
Context: I cherish as strong a love for the land of my nativity as any man living. I am proud of her civil, political and religious institutions — of her high advancement in science, literature and the arts — of her general prosperity and grandeur. But I have some solemn accusations to bring against her. I accuse her of insulting the majesty of Heaven with the grossest mockery that was ever exhibited to man — inasmuch as, professing to be the land of the free and the asylum of the oppressed, she falsifies every profession, and shamelessly plays the tyrant.
I accuse her, before all nations, of giving an open, deliberate and base denial to her boasted Declaration, that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
I accuse her of disfranchising and proscribing nearly half a million free people of color, acknowledging them not as countrymen, and scarcely as rational beings, and seeking to drag them thousands of miles across the ocean on a plea of benevolence, when they ought to enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities of American citizens.
I accuse her of suffering a large portion of her population to be lacerated, starved and plundered, without law and without justification, at the will of petty tyrants.
I accuse her of trafficking in the bodies and souls of men, in a domestic way, to an extent nearly equal to the foreign slave trade; which traffic is equally atrocious with the foreign, and almost as cruel in its operations.
I accuse her of legalizing, on an enormous scale, licentiousness, fraud, cruelty and murder.
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. III : The Master, p. 66
Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 17: Some Prospects: Cheerful and Otherwise
William Cobbett
(1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
“The Last Ten Years,” Political Register (4 January 1812).
Imru' al-Qais
(501–544) Arabic Poet
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. 5, p. 22
Poetry, Couplets
Source: https://archive.org/details/sacredbooksearly05hornuoft/page/18/mode/2up The Sacred books and Early literature of the East, Vol. 5, p. 22
Pythagoras
(-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Attribution to Pythagoras by Ovid, as quoted in The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought (1985) by Jon Wynne-Tyson, p. 260; also in Vegetarian Times, No. 168 (August 1991), p. 4
Context: As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.