Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
Alfred Russel WallaceI spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel WallaceTruth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
Alfred Russel WallaceI hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong
Alfred Russel Wallace