2000, William D. Hart, Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture[1], page 116:
By proposing to speak truth to power, Said signals his rejection of a particular epistemological and ethical construction of truth, where Descartes' certainty and Nietzsche's radical skepticism are two sides of a single misunderstanding.
It is a waste of time to speak truth to power, in the literal sense of these words, and the effort can often be a form of self-indulgence. It is a waste of time, in my view, and a pointless pursuit to speak truth to Henry Kissinger, or to the CEO of AT&T or to others who exercise power in coercive institutions
2007, Laurent Dobuzinskis, David Howard Laycock, Michael Patrick Howlett, Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art[3], page 170:
Speaking truth to power, as already noted, is a widely held view in the literature of what policy analysis is as art and craft.
2011, James O'Toole, “Speaking Truth to Power”, in Warren Bennis, editor, Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor[4], page 48:
... isolated, scorned, and reviled by their organizations for their efforts to save them. So why did they dare to speak truth to power?
