If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
The advent of Google+ and the emergence of the personalized web means this is more true than ever. Brands, and their advertising partners, must wake up to this challenge and define themselves with clarity, consistency and authenticity. Otherwise they just might find themselves shouting in a ghost town.
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
