Quotes about lying
lying opposites two
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. Horace
lying political tools
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. Hannah Arendt
lying battle losing
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
lying order lines
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.
lying past violence
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.
lying revolution action
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
lying reality understanding
There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them. Guy Gavriel Kay
lying heart hands
And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it. Guy de Maupassant
lying words-of-wisdom differentiation
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. Gottfried Leibniz
lying writing people
If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies. Gore Vidal
lying father son
But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.
lying believe numbers
A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.
lying father wonder
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").
lying waiting feelings
The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie. Gillian Flynn
lying doe truth-is
He who does not lie does not know what truth is. Friedrich Nietzsche
lying army order
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
lying dew common
What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?
lying wrestling men
We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?
lying mouths may
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
lying men indignant
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
lying common exception
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
lying father son
What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
lying law hatred
There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.
lying race progress
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
lying evil stills
I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
lying giving morality
The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
lying thinking medicine
Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.
lying men truthful
The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.
lying indignant
And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.
lying pity danger
Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
lying men might
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
lying mouths telling-the-truth
One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
lying pregnancy hero
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.