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Quotes About FALSE

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.
~ Paul Tillich
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
~ H. G. Wells
The trumpeting of false claims that are beneficial to Biden and other Democrats while ignoring the achievements of Trump and Republicans is typical for many media corporations.
~ Mollie Hemingway
Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.
~ Robert Jeffress
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
~ Immanuel Kant
men say, that false Dreams hold, clinging
~ Tana French
We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda or false promise.
~ John Hickenlooper
This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.
~ Wagner Moura
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?
~ Alan Ball
The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
~ John Bunyan
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
~ St. Jerome
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
~ Joseph de Maistre
The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.
~ Karl Marx
Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are partisans of things past such that not only do they celebrate those ages that they know from what historians have preserved of them, but also those that as old men they recall having seen in their youth. And if this opinion of theirs is false, as it is most of the time, I am persuaded that there are various causes that lead them into this deception.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to change the false Black Lives Matter narrative, but it doesn't look like they will have many allies among liberal mayors and their police commanders.
~ Heather Mac Donald
We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address and dig into that wherever you can.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.
~ Christopher Hitchens
the awareness that the distinction between "over here" and "over there," or between "home" and "abroad" is often a false one has never left me.
~ Christopher Hitchens
a paradox would appear to be a maximum that looks false at first sight and, only after mature reflection, seems to express what the author believes to be true and, because of the hiatus between the expectations of popular opinion and its provocative form, also appears to be witty
~ Umberto Eco
I concluded that although instruments, whether empirical or conjectural, exist to prove that some object is false, every decision in the matter presupposes the existence of an original, authentic and true, to which the fake is compared. The truly genuine problem thus does not consist of proving something false but in proving that the authentic object is authentic.
~ Umberto Eco
Uncritical media reports about breakthroughs and epochal beginnings, often under naively or ridiculously phrased headlines, have become the norm that generates false conclusions and raises unwarranted expectations.
~ Vaclav Smil
Time is always the enemy of opportunists and a friend to those who stand on the side of history. It exposes false strength and rewards true strength.
~ Vasily Grossman
The classified information was nothing more than the statements from El-Maati and Almalki that had been extracted by torture, and Omar Khadr's false identification of Arar.
~ Kurt Eichenwald