Dishonesty Quotes - Page 4

• That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Character, Life Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

  Samuel Butler

  Liars, Lying, Way

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 39

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• I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.

  Robert Wagner

  Pain, Lying, Play

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• The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Self, Knowing Who You Are

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• Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Doors, Locks

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

  Kin Hubbard

  Truth, Honesty, People

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• Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.

  Charles Thomas Jackson

  Science, Careers, Support

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• Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Character, Men

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• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Media, Law, Pro Life

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• A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

  Byron Katie

  Saying Yes, Saying No, Speakers

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2013

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• It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Self, Deceit

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• The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

  Walter Raleigh

  Lying, Deceit, Gains

  "The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh".

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• The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

  Selena Roberts

  Stars, Believe, Hypocrisy

  "Truth Has Been Sullied Too Many Times" by Selena Roberts, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2005.

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• Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

  James Cook

  Cheating, Lying, Integrity

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• ...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Suffering, Culture

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.16, David C Cook

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• It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Integrity, Thinking, Intellectual

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• We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Liberty, Agitation, Complaining

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• It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

  Sue Grafton

  Years, Population, Cheat

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.13, Macmillan

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• This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.

  John D. MacDonald

  Girl, Strong, Hedging

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• No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Honesty, Men, Land

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

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• I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.

  Mark Cuban

  New York, Mad, Knows

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• There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

  Leonard Read

  Men, Gains, Expenses

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• Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian...it is anti-Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Sports, Christian, Cheating

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• Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

  Stuart Wilde

  Lying, Our World, Hands

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