#ruth

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one’s own age. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#honesty #opinion #time #truth #age

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#freedom #truth #anger

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#giving #truth #anger

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#anger

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig? ↗

— Plato

#learning #truth #anger

Tears returned to my eyes, but this time they weren't from anger or fear. They were tears that came from understanding the truth about myself and from realizing that what I had was exactly what I wanted all along. ↗

— Lisa Magnum

#satisfaction #truth #anger

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. ↗

— George A. Smith

#make #man #often #position #trifle

They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts. ↗

— Karen Chance

#truth #anger

I will go, once I have said what I came here to say. I will never shrink from the anger in your eyes- you can't destroy me. Listen to me closely: the man you have sought for so long, proclaiming, cursing up and down, the murderer of Laius- he is here. A stranger, you may think, who lives among you, he soon will be revealed a native Theban but he will take no joy in the revelation. Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich, he will grope his way toward a foreign soil, A stick tapping before him step by step. Revealed at last, brother and father both to the children he embraces, to his mother son and husband both - he sowed the loins his father sowed, he spilled his father's blood! Go in and reflect on that, solve that. And if you find I've lied from this day onward call the prophet blind. ↗

— Robert Fagles Sophocles

#eloquent #incest #pain #prophecy #prophet

There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #cowardice #differentiation #flag #guilt