“Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.” ~Noam Chomsky American professor and public intellectual Noam Chomsky was born on this day in 1928.
“Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.” ~Noam Chomsky American professor and public intellectual Noam Chomsky was born on this day in 1928.
“Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.” ~Catharine MacKinnon American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author Catharine MacKinnon was born on this day in 1946.
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” ~Jessamyn West American author Jessamyn West was born on this day in 1902.
“It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.” ~Harriet Martineau English social theorist Harriet Martineau was born on this day in 1802.
“The truth is… everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.” ~Countee Cullen American poet, novelist, children’s writer, and playwright Countee Cullen was born on this day in 1903.
“The truth doesn’t care what we think of it.” ~Anne Michaels Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels was born on this day in 1958.
“There’s truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.” ~N.K. Jemisin American science fiction and fantasy writer N.K. Jemisin was born on this day in 1972.
“Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.”~Lucy Stone U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women Lucy Stone was born … Continue reading Random Quote for August 13, 2022
“Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.”~Fran Lebowitz American author, public speaker, and occasional actor Fran Lebowitz was born on this day in 1950.
“Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.”~Geraldine Brooks Australian-American journalist and novelist Geraldine Brooks was born on this day in 1955.
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