Quotes About Lies

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

It's the lies we tell ourselves that make us repetitive.

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]

Where do all the labyrinths of error in the world come from [the objector will continue], if not from the fact that when men follow their own minds they land in vanity and lies? So

One lies in truth, One truth is lies. One path is death, One path is life. One question asked, The path to guide.

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome.

The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark

A mobster who knew Trump socially said of him once, "He'd lie to you about what time of day it is—just for the practice.

One lies in truth, One's truth is lies. One path is death, One path is life. One question asked, The path to guide.

Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

Lies come back upon the liar, as such a coin turns towards the magnet.

Living self-isolated and powerless with truth shows the greatness of humanity than the governing with the crown of lies.

Opinions are initials to shape and create the examples. But the world can never be changed by examples that lie in lies.

Options, in whatever subject, endorse confusion and skill weakness; however, a quick decision on this and that falls not as an option. Conversely, such possibilities define itself as two or various ways, to try as, if not that then this, for success; indeed, it compares and measures between lies and truth; falsehood and reality.

The false appearances verify the lies.

To a certain extent, it is my weak point and flaw that I cannot abide and avoid the idiocy of the idiots, the lies of the liars, and the ignorance of the ignorant.

Lies are better than tranquilizers.

To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves. Sometimes we tell ourselves lovely tales, sometimes petty lies. Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.