{"id":173,"date":"2005-11-26T17:45:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2005-11-28T00:48:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T23:48:08","slug":"quote-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Quote: Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boris-johnson.com\/\">Boris Johnson&#8217;s <\/a>column on page 22 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, 24\/11\/2005, the subject matter of which is not something I wish to discuss on this blog (but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boris-johnson.com\/archives\/2005\/11\/bush_and_al-jaz.html\">here&#8217;s<\/a> a clue), carried an excellent quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we suppress the truth, we forget what we are fighting for, and in an important respect we become as sick and as bad as our enemies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In some respects this can be applied in the work-place too.  It&#8217;s important not to suppress the truth at work, otherwise employees become disillusioned, communication becomes garbled and some folks end up joining the &#8220;if you can&#8217;t beat them, join them&#8221; camp &#8211; something that is wrong on so many counts.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posting:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=108\">#10 &#8211; The truth is best\u2026admit it\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not one to be outspoken, Boris Johnson&#8217;s column in The Daily Telegraph carried a thought-provoking quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}