The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Topic

Truth hurts Truth Willful ignorance Freedom

Author

Herbert Agar

Source

A Time for Greatness

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Historian Journalist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Agar, Herbert. A Time for Greatness. Little, Brown and Company, 1942.

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

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Film
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Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.

Another quote about Freedom

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Topic
Freedom Liberation The human condition

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
The Social Contract
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
French
Time
1762 1760s 18th century
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Another quote from 1942

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep-leave it any way except a slow way; leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Beryl Markham

West with the Night

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Topic
Letting go of the past

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Beryl Markham
Source
West with the Night
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Markham, Beryl. West with the Night. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942, ch. 11.

Another quote of the following type Irony

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz

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Effects of time Time

Author

Hector Berlioz
Source
Letters of Hector Berlioz
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Irony
Language
French
Time
1856 1850s 19th century
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Citation

Berlioz, Hector. Personal letter. Nov. 1856.