Mencius Quotes

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.

He that would speak the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

History is full of opportunistic moments when taking action could have made a difference.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger

High office—whether elected, appointed, or simply taken—comes with power. But that is not a sufficient precondition for success. Among the world’s hundreds …, only a few really stand out for the risks that they have taken and the changes they have made

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Change is good. Quick change can be very dangerous.

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.