Michael Scott Quotes
the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth
Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst. Delacorte Press, 2007.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Comment to President Teddy Roosevelt as while he, as US Secretary of State, dealt extensively with a deceitful Russia as they attempted to expand into Chinese Manchuria which eventually led to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
Guthrie Michael Scott was an Anglican priest and anti-apartheid activist, who joined in the defiance of the apartheid system in South Africa in the 1940s - a long struggle for social justice in that country. He was also an early advocate of nuclear disarmament.
