Lies Quotes - Page 5

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it

That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Every lie needs, and gives birth to, another lie

rassool jibraeel snyman

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

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I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent.

Mia Sheridan

The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

Victoria Schwab

The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

James Edwin Gunn

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

Glen Duncan

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

rassool jibraeel snyman

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

Rob Thomas

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Dianna Hardy

I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’ttrying to be deceitful.

Quinn Loftis

I didn't mean to hurt her.

Quinn Loftis

It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he gained the trust and confidence of many women, who revealed their troubles to him.Time after time, Freud's patients, women from prosperous, conventional families, unburdened painful memories of childhood sexual encounters with men they had trusted: family friends, relatives, and fathers. Freud initially believed his patients and recognized the significance of their confessions. In 1896, with the publication of two works, The Aetiology of Hysteria and Studies on Hysteria, he announced that he had solved the mystery of the female neurosis. At the origin of every case of hysteria, Freud asserted, was a childhood sexual trauma.But Freud was never comfortable with this discovery, because of what it implied about the behavior of respectable family men. If his patients' reports were true, incest was not a rare abuse, confined to the poor and the mentally defective, but was endemic to the patriarchal family. Recognizing the implicit challenge to patriarchal values, Freud refused to identify fathers publicly as sexual aggressors. Though in his private correspondence he cited "seduction by the father" as the "essential point" in hysteria, he was never able to bring himself to make this statement in public. Scrupulously honest and courageous in other respects, Freud falsified his incest cases. In The Aetiology of Hysteria, Freud implausibly identified governessss, nurses, maids, and children of both sexes as the offenders. In Studies in Hysteria, he managed to name an uncle as the seducer in two cases. Many years later, Freud acknowledged that the "uncles" who had molested Rosaslia and Katharina were in fact their fathers. Though he had shown little reluctance to shock prudish sensibilities in other matters, Freud claimed that "discretion" had led him to suppress this essential information. Even though Freud had gone to such lengths to avoid publicly inculpating fathers, he remained so distressed by his seduction theory that within a year he repudiated it entirely. He concluded that his patients' numerous reports of sexual abuse were untrue. This conclusion was based not on any new evidence from patients, but rather on Freud's own growing unwillingness to believe that licentious behavior on the part of fathers could be so widespread. His correspondence of the period revealed that he was particularly troubled by awareness of his own incestuous wishes toward his daughter, and by suspicions of his father, who had died recently.p9-10

Judith Lewis Herman

It was hard to tell if he was lying, or really believed his own bullshit. “We’re good for each other. You give me what I need. I give you what you need. No one needs to know what that is because it’s a secret between us. So we put on our suit. That’s the investment: us.

Dan Skinner

Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal power of Nietzschean entities, striving only for the narcissistic vindication of their ego and will. The enlightened mind knows that all is challengeable, ergo questions all and thus, learns and grows; progression. The weak and narrow mind makes its beliefs sacrosanct; fearful of challenge, their creed becomes unalterable, defended with violence. Political extremists, much like religious zealots, are the latter. They destroy what they cannot convert. They annihilate those they cannot control, or force to conform. They have found no peace in life, no love, and so promote war and division, as emotional cripples – inflicting their own pain and misery and malignant stupidity on the world. Their language binds people together, but only by stirring the darkest excesses of the soul; language of hate, and intolerance, fear and conspiracy, and the need for vengeance. In war-scarred Europe, these cripples direct mass-psychology, and would make the world in their own likeness; mutilated by violence and tribalism and hate.

Daniel S. Fletcher

Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular.

John Reynaga

Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game than before.

Cassandra Giovanni

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

Sol Luckman

What simple andordinary lives we live,underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists

Phil Volatile

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

Anne Perry

The truth reveals itself in the most innocent of ways. You can lie and deceive, attempt to bury that which you wish to remain unseen. Yet the truth flourishes, rising from it's prison to stand tall for all to see.

D. Alma

A lie is nothing more than the truth told in reverse

Arthur C. Buckner

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

Jane Yolen

You want me to lie to you?" said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

Alice Hoffman

My pants are on fire!

John Ziegler

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

Harper Lee

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.

Bryant McGill

The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

Sean Patrick Brennan

Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it.

Steve Maraboli

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

George R.R. Martin

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

Patrick Rothfuss

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Jennifer Crusie

The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.

Bryant McGill

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

Bryant McGill

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

Jennifer Crusie

If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

Bryant McGill

I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.

Kiersten White

Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash.

Chip Kidd

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

Samuel Butler

The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

M.R.C. Kasasian

The people who support and defend those accused of child sexual abuse indiscriminately, those who join organizations dedicated to defending people who are accused of child sexual abuse with no screening whatsoever to keep out those who are guilty as charged are likewise not necessarily people engaged in an objective search for the truth. Some of them can and do use deceit, trickery, misstated research, harassment, intimidation, and charges of laundering federal money to silence their opponents.Those of us who are the recipients of bogus lawsuits and frivolous ethics charges and phony phone calls and pickets outside our offices must know more than the research to survive such tactics. We must know something about endurance and about the importance of refusing to be intimidated.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

Anna C. Salter

REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.

Bryant McGill

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

Charles Dickens

Not all the relationships deserve loving and all the lies worth to regret.

M.F. Moonzajer

Those who speak the truth in this world; they fall out of favor, in the current era of inflated lies.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat's watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God for safety, as he climbs a palm tree with sewing thread. How intelligent!Man does not want the truth, and God does not want lies, yet there is no third option.One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing. That's pride. Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Humility!Not all that glitters is gold, and not all gold glitters. Watch, with the eyes, and also with the heart.Just because all things are lawful, don't make them expedient. And because a thing is right doesn't mean it edifies.With Faith, Wisdom comes highly recommended!

Olaotan Fawehinmi

The best lie was always just short of the truth.

Roderick Vincent

Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant.""Is it only lies that are Pleasant?""Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.

Penelope Mortimer

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Fanny Fern

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky's name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor. To the present Soviet generation, and not only to it, Trotsky's life-story is already like an ancient Egyptian sepulchre which is known to have contained the body of a great man and the record, engraved in gold, of his deeds; but tomb-robbers and ghouls have plundered and left it so empty and desolate that no trace is found of the record it once contained. The work of the tomb-robbers has, in this present instance, been so persistent that it has strongly affected the views even of independent Western historians and scholars.

Isaac Deutscher

Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth.

Miranda J. Barrett

It’s a lie, but it’s the lie he needs. I’m going to hell.

Kiersten White

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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