lies quotes

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.