Albert Einstein Elsa to join him as his special guests. Walter Isaacson, Einstein's biographer, described this as "one of the most memorable scenes in the new era of celebrity". Chaplin visited Einstein at his home on a later trip to Berlin, and recalled his "modest little flat" and the piano at which he had begun writing his theory. Chaplin speculated that it was "possibly used as kindling wood by the Nazis." In February 1933 while on a visit to the United States, Einstein knew he could not return to Germany with the rise to power of the Nazis under Germany's new chancellor,
Speaking truth to power Lama and Elie Wiesel. In classical Greece 'speaking truth to power' was known as parrhesia. The tactic is similar to Satyagraha (literally, 'truth-force') which was used by Mahatma Gandhi in seeking independence from British India. Albert O. Hirschman, writing in the 1970s, suggested that subordinates have three options; Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. According to Michel Foucault writing in 1983, only the courageous may pursue the truth-to-power course; they risk losing their friends, (as Winston Churchill did in the 1930s) their liberty, even their lives ( Liu Xiaobo). Noam Chomsky is dismissive of 'speaking truth to power'. He asserts that 'power