“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.” Scorates
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Message of the Day – A Quote — 17 Comments
Good one.
Keeping in the spirit of Cal’s message and pic.
If any photo’s of my college costume party choices should somehow emerge.
I truly apologize to any ancient Romans I may have offended.
One person’s alleged slander is another person’s truth! Those of poor morals, ethics and values use these type of quotes when their conscious tells them their being exposed.
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names shall never hurt me.’
I’ĺl save the precious time of my Political Science, Sociology, and Theology professor and publicly state the obvious conclusion: Socrates would be a pro-life, republikkklan today. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, hug blogger, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww…
Trump uphold this mantra everyday
“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
– Ayn Rand
FYI—
Did Socrates Say Slander Is ‘The Tool of the Losers”?
Some quotes are documented in history and textbooks, while others appear nowhere but the internet.
Online searches for the existence of this quote prior to 2010 either produced very sparse results or pointed to posts and pages that had been updated since that year. The absolute earliest Socratic attribution of this phrase we were able to locate came from the social literature site GoodReads, where it appeared in 2008.
So as far as we can tell, the phrase “when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser” emerged roughly around 2008 and appears to have no traceable history prior to that. Despite its popularity on social media, no one has ever found a single direct link to any material attributed to Socrates matching the quote. Its abrupt appearance and lack of historical support suggests that Socrates’ signature was tacked to the commentary to give it an air of ancient wisdom.
So maybe it is just modern wisdom.
Speaking of slander, the Catholic teenager from Kentucky, Nicholas Sandman, successfully sued CNN for falsely portraying him and his actions in Washington DC when a Native American was getting in his face. Sandman was with other teenagers wearing MAGA caps at the Lincoln Memorial. Our fine president has on occasion said that that network provides fake news.
@Paul Revere
Don’t read too much into it.
I think the reference was to Socrates McGurke of Janesville.
I read that on the internet so you know it’s true! 😉
It’s all in Saul Alinsky’s “Reveille for Radicals”.
Why does less 1% of population have 3 seats on SCOTUS?
“No one is more hated than he who says the truth” – Plato
I know Angel is being sarcastic, but Socrates would not be a Republican lol
Socrates was a radical who questioned the government, tradition, and the religious teachings of the day.
For that, he was killed by inflexible law-and-order traditionalists.
He admitted to what he was accused of and did not apologize for it, even when he knew sticking to his convictions would get him killed.
Then he chose to accept his death sentence rather than flee from it.
There are some parallels between his story and the one of Jesus Christ.
““No one is more hated than he who says the truth” – Plato” Sunshine blogger, I was mistaken about the reason so many people consider both you and your sunshine blog the worst imaginable trash. I stand corrected. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, hug a blogger, tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww…
Sunshine blogger? Now that sounds homosexual. Angel R Llavona obviously an ankle grabber.
Correcting’s Cliff’s Notes précis of Socrates’ trial omits some key facts:
1) He was charged w/ ‘corrupting boys’;
2) when he was given the chance to pick his punishment (and could have opted for exile), he chose to insult the judges by saying he should bee rewarded for what did.
Yes, that’s correct.
Corrupting the youth was one of his charges.
(By the way, that means teaching them things the government didn’t approve of.)
Good one.
Keeping in the spirit of Cal’s message and pic.
If any photo’s of my college costume party choices should somehow emerge.
I truly apologize to any ancient Romans I may have offended.
One person’s alleged slander is another person’s truth! Those of poor morals, ethics and values use these type of quotes when their conscious tells them their being exposed.
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names shall never hurt me.’
I’ĺl save the precious time of my Political Science, Sociology, and Theology professor and publicly state the obvious conclusion: Socrates would be a pro-life, republikkklan today. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, hug blogger, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww…
Trump uphold this mantra everyday
“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
– Ayn Rand
FYI—
Did Socrates Say Slander Is ‘The Tool of the Losers”?
Some quotes are documented in history and textbooks, while others appear nowhere but the internet.
Online searches for the existence of this quote prior to 2010 either produced very sparse results or pointed to posts and pages that had been updated since that year. The absolute earliest Socratic attribution of this phrase we were able to locate came from the social literature site GoodReads, where it appeared in 2008.
So as far as we can tell, the phrase “when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser” emerged roughly around 2008 and appears to have no traceable history prior to that. Despite its popularity on social media, no one has ever found a single direct link to any material attributed to Socrates matching the quote. Its abrupt appearance and lack of historical support suggests that Socrates’ signature was tacked to the commentary to give it an air of ancient wisdom.
So maybe it is just modern wisdom.
Speaking of slander, the Catholic teenager from Kentucky, Nicholas Sandman, successfully sued CNN for falsely portraying him and his actions in Washington DC when a Native American was getting in his face. Sandman was with other teenagers wearing MAGA caps at the Lincoln Memorial. Our fine president has on occasion said that that network provides fake news.
@Paul Revere
Don’t read too much into it.
I think the reference was to Socrates McGurke of Janesville.
I read that on the internet so you know it’s true! 😉
It’s all in Saul Alinsky’s “Reveille for Radicals”.
Why does less 1% of population have 3 seats on SCOTUS?
“No one is more hated than he who says the truth” – Plato
I know Angel is being sarcastic, but Socrates would not be a Republican lol
Socrates was a radical who questioned the government, tradition, and the religious teachings of the day.
For that, he was killed by inflexible law-and-order traditionalists.
He admitted to what he was accused of and did not apologize for it, even when he knew sticking to his convictions would get him killed.
Then he chose to accept his death sentence rather than flee from it.
There are some parallels between his story and the one of Jesus Christ.
““No one is more hated than he who says the truth” – Plato” Sunshine blogger, I was mistaken about the reason so many people consider both you and your sunshine blog the worst imaginable trash. I stand corrected. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, hug a blogger, tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww…
Sunshine blogger? Now that sounds homosexual. Angel R Llavona obviously an ankle grabber.
Correcting’s Cliff’s Notes précis of Socrates’ trial omits some key facts:
1) He was charged w/ ‘corrupting boys’;
2) when he was given the chance to pick his punishment (and could have opted for exile), he chose to insult the judges by saying he should bee rewarded for what did.
Yes, that’s correct.
Corrupting the youth was one of his charges.
(By the way, that means teaching them things the government didn’t approve of.)
He was a radical.
He wouldn’t be a Republican.