Quotes About Lies

American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a Times journalist or as a spokesman by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard.

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

We have elevated money to the level of humanity. But money and humanity are enemies. Enemies who feed off, lie to, and use each other. There can be no freedom in this situation. Only fear. By elevating money you give it a vote. So what does money think is the ideal global condition? And what does humanity think is the idea financial one? The disastrous answer to both of these questions is: more.

They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that's damned lies.

The state prosecutor forced a smile, but it didn't extend to his eyes. Ira knew that the difference between an honest smile and the vacant facial expression of an artificial grin lay in the gaze. Faust may have been smiling, but the eyes behind his glasses were ice cold. And that could only mean one thing - that everything he was about to say was a lie

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Virtually everyone knows that Aristotle sometimes lies.

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.

It was far more a cultivated ignorance of America's sins than innocence of them, and this ignorance was helped along by a culturally embedded pattern of rationalizations, bigotries, stereotypes, and lies.

Liars come in all shapes and sizes, young lady. Sometimes folks think they are telling a lie to make things better. But then they are telling two lies. One to another person and one to themselves" -Mr. Doyle

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos...

Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. —Ice Cube

Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it. (Mirella) Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated. (Schramm)

I've plumb forgot where I am for the instant, which is how a good lie should take you. At the same time, I'm more where I was inside myself than before Daddy started talking, which is how lies can tell you the truth.

Mother's particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth's direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

You know how depression lies? Well anxiety is stupid. I did not just say people with anxiety are stupid. No, no. I mean that anxiety itself is stupid. If you asked anxiety what two plus two is, anxiety will think very hard and say triangle or a bag of Fritos or a commemorative stamp. Because anxiety doesn't know what anything is. It will try to convince you that things that are totally fine are worthy of dread.