Quotes About Lies

As Hannah Arendt explained in The Origins of Totalitarianism, decoupling politics from reality has a long history: "Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of the man who can fabricate it.

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. —Orange Catholic Bible

But lies have a life of their own and are harder to kill than either men or unicorns.

I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps.

Quién te ha dicho que no puede haber amor verdadero, fiel y eterno en el mundo, que no existe? ¡Que le corten la lengua repugnante a ese mentiroso!

Satan's chief tactic is deception" and he does it "by telling people lies about God

A love for the world begins in the soul. It's subtle, not always immediately obvious to others, and often undetected by the people who are slowly succumbing to its lies.

Far too many people will believe anything of those they hate, no matter how absurd or patently fabricated it may be.

So much of being a woman is telling lies, isn't it?" Victory asked. "It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. Women think that survival depends on conformity. But for some women, conformity is death. It's a death to the soul. The soul," she said, "is a precious thing. When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

Even in lies there are sometimes truths revealed.

This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.

The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Oftentimes it's easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn't always so attractive.

But the truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Some are simply blind to the truth and fight for the lies they hear.

Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.

People would believe any lie, either because they wanted it to be true, or because they feared it was.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing.