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Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
Steven Biko
Alone
Lie
People
Wealth
Entitled
Group
Believe
Prestige
Security
Find
More
Obvious
Accept
Comfortable
Tradition
Privilege
Begins
Tasted
Whenever
Fruits
Lovely
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
James Bovard
Government
Good
Selfish
Lie
People
Own
Politicians
Our
Bad
Bad Government
Almost
Docile
Public
Us
Public Good
Good And Bad
Interests
Means
Now
Right
Good Government
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. Schulz
Me
Lie
Sometimes
Gone
Says
One-Night
More
Voice
Take
Wrong
Than
Going
Where
Ask
Then
Awake
Night
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
Lie
Words
Consist
Neighbour
Indirect
Does
False
Deceive
Intention
Your
Speaking
Injure
Desire
Position
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
Lie
Power
Those
Possession
Lies
Only
Prophecy
Prophesy
Absolute
Absolute Power
True
Come
Also
Make
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness
Achievement
Lie
Does
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
Truth
You
Man
Lie
Believe
Telling
Telling The Truth
Would
Know
Were
His
Place
Hard
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth
Lie
Inferiority
Every
Society
Negroes
Remind
Accepted
Waking
Discrimination
Dominating
Them
Moment
Lives
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
Avigdor Lieberman
Truth
Lie
People
Sweet
Say
Bitter
Bitter Truth
Between
Hear
Want
Choose
Many
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
You
Yourself
Lie
Evil
Be True
Correct
Laugh
True
Spoken
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
Truth
Lie
Speak
Enemies
Duty
Web
Only
Caught
Friends
Endlessly
Lovers
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lie
Country
Become
State
Our
Moral
Category
Pillar
Just
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Hypatia
Life
Truth
Best
Travel
Lie
Understanding
Preparation
Our
Further
Those
Comprehend
More
Beyond
Understand
Door
Things
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
Betty White
Moody
Lie
Better
Animals
Criticize
Days
Handle
Than
Them
Humans
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
Truth
Lie
World
Big
Adds
Up
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
Truth
Lie
Bitter
Find
Only
Sip
Any
Swallow
Flatters
Little
Us
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan Sontag
Truth
Balance
Truth Is
Lie
Opposite
However
May
Which
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken
History
Age
Dignity
Lie
Legend
Attained
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Leonardo da Vinci
Lie
Darkness
Light
Increased
Diminished
Detail
Shadow
Could
Between
Understood
Beginnings
Infinitely
May
Ends
Form
Which
Forms
Bodies
Means
Display
To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.
Megan Rapinoe
Tired
Lie
Exhausted
Say
Ways
Would
Would-Be
Mentally
Am
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Terry McAuliffe
Lie
Little Things
Will
Big
Too
Lies
About
Someone
Big Things
Little
Who
Things
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lie
Sometimes
Wind
Sail
Anchor
Must
Drift
Reach
Against
Port
Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Lie
Hypocrite
Think
Others
Say
Some
Like
Opposite
Going
Why
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
H. Rap Brown
Love
Truth
Justice
Injustice
Lie
Righteousness
Allah
State
Seek
More
Over
Than
Rewards
Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.
Jenny Lewis
Life
Lie
World
Be Kind
Sometimes
Try
Hopeless
Looking
Own
Side
Ways
Kind
Seems
My Own
Outward
Feel
Like
Look
Within
Always
Lot
Itself
Times
Us
Rough
Rough Times
Bright
Things
I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy Carter
Me
You
Confidence
Lie
Statement
Tell
Betray
Never
Had
Misleading
Make
Issue
Any
Controversial
Avoid
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