Quotes About Lie

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

People who know I have social anxiety like to say things like: "You may not want to go out, but you should just force yourself. You'll be glad you did!" That is a lie.

Morning had gotten lost on the way home. We would lie this way forever, always saying goodbye, never parting.

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie.

Madness is the sweet lie of our minds compared to the truth of sanity.

Pick the nerves of anger with a knife, there must be somewhere to switch from a lie to a state of truth.

To tell a lie is to recognize that all truths are half-truths. There can be no pure truth or lie, they are identical twins who cannot be separated.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

Listening to counsel or ways of thinking that are not according to the Truth is the first step in developing wrong beliefs that will ultimately place us in bondage. Once we have listened to the lie, the next step toward bondage is that we . . .   DWELL ON THE LIE.

The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.

Memory is a lie, a creative act, a flimsy shield against the truth.

And Satan sighed and shook his head, played harp amongst the flames. 'It's Hell up there in Heaven too, for all that that is worth. Heaven is just a lie of mine to make it Hell on Earth.

Nah, pride's just a slick dress uniform and a cheap lie that'll get you killed when the people you're fighting for, who aren't doing any of the actual fighting, start selling you out and

An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition. It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.

Rather face the consequences if the truth rather than the reprocussions of a lie

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

spite of every lie uttered or printed, the truth comes to the top, and it is known alike by peoples and rulers, that on the whole British influence is healthy and kindly, and makes for the general happiness and welfare of Mankind.

Metaphors help you boil down the complications and ambiguities of your too-long life into a picture book. They help you lie to yourself

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

I wanted to maintain the illusion of peace and harmony even one day, even one moment. Longer. Dreading above all the thought of giving people such a frightful shock, I acted out the temporizing lie as if my life depended on it. I was forever doing that: backing myself further into a corner as I contemplated my own death.

Revolution and love are in fact the best, most pleasurable things in the world, and we realize it is precisely because they are so good that the older and wiser heads have spitefully fobbed off in us their sour grapes of a lie. This I want to believe implicitly: man was born for love and revolution.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.