Quotes About Lies

Thus the portrait of McNamara in those years at his desk, on planes, in Saigon, poring over page after page of data, each platoon, each squad, studying all those statistics. All lies. Talking with reporters and telling them that all the indices were good. He could not have been more wrong; he simply had all the wrong indices, looking for American production indices in an Asian political revolution.

it is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them'.

There are] lies of two varieties. There is the truly bad, "I know that what I am saying is untrue, but it suits my agenda to say it anyway" kind. There is the less bad, "I came upon information I liked or found persuasive, and repeated it before verifying it was true" kind. The latter is not about willful dishonesty, just carelessness. But since both varieties promulgate misinformation, both kinds are harmful.

Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence.

But the world had gone mad, in his opinion. Lies and stupidity were more widespread than ever before. Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything, sometimes even penetrating the discussions within his own, otherwise sensible team.

sabía demasiado bien hasta qué punto el odio y las mentiras distorsionan la realidad y destruyen a las personas,

Killing the world with lies. Giving the leaders The power to paralyze Feeding the murderers with hate, Amputate, devastate, congratulate. But never, never Apologize.

If I've learned anything over the years, it's that the truth is generally a little unexpected, or even illogical, since we humans aren't entirely rational. Whereas lies, as a rule, tend to be consistent and comprehensive and often sound like a cliché - especially if the liars aren't very good.

De pronto comprendió que todos aquellos meses en que se había mostrado tan «activa» eran tan sólo una mentira. Había que mentir para poder vivir aquella muerte lenta, o si no, uno se moría durante todo lo que le quedaba de vida.

believe you have struck upon the problems of conspiracies. There are men who wish to keep you from uncovering the truth about this particular matter, but there are others who are only privately villainous and have their own little truths to hide. When you confront a conspiracy it becomes monstrous hard to distinguish between wretched villainy and ordinary, common lies.

It's only words... unless they're true.

We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.

Satan's greatest victories lays upon people believing his lies, Our greatest victories lays upon us believing God's Word.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

There is zero chaos, we are running - this is a fine-tuned machine. And Reince [Priebus] is doing a good job but half his job is putting out lies by the press.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

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

The let-alone lies not in your good will.

We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.