Lying Quotes

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Marion Wright Edelman: “What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children not to be violent while marketing and glorifying violence. I believe adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.”

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Anne Sullivan: “It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.”

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Carolyn Wells: “Actions lie louder than words.”

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Andre Gide: “The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”

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Abraham Maslow: “But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.”

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Otto von Bismarck: “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”

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Alfred Adler: “A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.”

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Leonardo da Vinci: “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

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Hannah Arendt: “Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

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Hannah Arendt: “Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.”

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Thomas Jefferson: “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.”

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Thomas Hobbes: “True and false are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood.”

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Carl Sagan: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

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John F. Kennedy: “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic”

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Mark Twain: “Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.”

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Anonymous: “A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.” more

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Michel de Montaigne: “He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” more

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Noam Chomsky: “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”

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Noam Chomsky: “For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we sere as willing or unwitting instruments.”

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Wendy Kaminer: “To rationalize their lies, people -- and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose -- are apt to regard their private interests and desires as just.”