“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Daniel J. Bernstein (1971) American mathematician, cryptologist and programmer
15 January 2005
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/49c4cd60d948032d
On testing
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Letter to Guy M. Bryan (1 January 1881)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Of Power and Time"
Blue Pastures (1995)
Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
Variant: Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Wall and Piece (2005)
“What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 536