Quotes About Lies

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.