Quotes About Lies

There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

History is: + the lies of the victors + the self-delusions of the defeated + a raw onion sandwich + certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation

Fraud, my children! Fraud and forgery. Dry rot covered with paint and gilded with lies

if the ends are sufficiently important to require lies instead of the truth.

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage.

folk-tales are, at best, generally no more than lies set in rhyme.

the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.

Ya estamos completamente acostumbrados a las falsas proclamaciones públicas de los políticos. Pero los votantes también mienten.

The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

most lies are acted out, rather than told

Expedience is the following of blind impulse. It's short-term gain. It's narrow, and selfish. It lies to get its way. It takes nothing into account. It's immature and irresponsible. Meaning is its mature replacement.

or (this one is particularly evil) "to ensure that it is always my unloved child's fault." These are all examples of what Sigmund Freud's compatriot, the lesser-known Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler, called "life-lies."149

For the big lie, you first need the little lie. The little lie is, metaphorically speaking, the bait used by the Father of Lies to hook his victims. The human capacity for imagination makes us capable of dreaming up and creating alternative worlds. This is the ultimate source of our creativity. With that singular capacity, however, comes the counterpart, the opposite side of the coin: we can deceive ourselves and others into believing and acting as if things are other than we know they are.

After that comes the arrogance and sense of superiority that inevitably accompanies the production of successful lies (hypothetically successful lies—and that is one of the greatest dangers: apparently everyone is fooled, so everyone is stupid, except me. Everyone is stupid and fooled, by me—so I can get away with whatever I want). Finally, there is the proposition: "Being itself is susceptible to my manipulations. Thus, it deserves no respect.

All these thinkers, all centrally concerned with pathology both individual and cultural, came to the same conclusion: lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

What do you do to avoid conflict, necessary though it may be? What are you inclined to lie about, assuming that the truth might be intolerable? What do you fake?

These are all examples of what Sigmund Freud's compatriot, the lesser-known Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler, called "life-lies.

Hay palabras que antes de ser escritas ya están muertas. Hay palabras que antes de ser pronunciadas ya están gastadas. Hay palabras que antes de ser oídas ya son mentiras. Palabras.

Si la posverdad existe, tendríamos que imaginarla no como el ámbito donde los poderosos mienten, y ni siquiera donde mienten de modo sistemático, sino aquel donde sus mentiras ya no incomodan a nadie y la distinción entre verdad y mentira se torna irrelevante.

Le mélange du vrai et du faux est énormément plus toxique que le faux pur. PAUL VALÉRY

La verdad no se dice ¡Se hace! Lo único que se dice es la mentira.