dishonesty quotes

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The worst crime is faking it.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.