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Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
Truth
Honesty
Honesty Is
Living
Lying
Telling
More
Than
Loving
Speaking
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
Truth
Liar
Hide
Trouble
Lying
Entirely
Clear
Wishes
Efficiency
Deceiver
Deceiving
Depends
Notion
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S Truman
Truth
Time
Good
Lie
Mouth
Richard Nixon
Lying
Sides
Nixon
Out
Telling
Telling The Truth
Both
Both Sides
He
Himself
Caught
His
Hand
Same
Just
Same Time
Richard
Keep
Ever
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Thoughts
Man
Lying
Pen
Thousand
Write
He
Takes
Know
Within
Does
Till
Up
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
Pamela Meyer
Lie
Power
Believe
Think
Lying
Else
About
Someone
Emerges
Mere
Whatsoever
Act
Agree
Cooperative
Utterance
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Truth
Exaggeration
People
Some People
Lying
Addicted
Tell
Some
Without
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Clint Eastwood
Soul
Lying
My Soul
Deep
Rebel
Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think.
Richard Cohen
News
Lie
Liar
Stupid
Greedy
Own
Control
Creation
Think
Liars
Lying
President
Unloved
Out
Paradox
Would
Outright
He
Almost
House
Make
His
Spun
Trump
Theatrical
Figure
Swell
Who
Ridicule
Believed
Fox
Fox News
Sympathetic
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.
Adam Curtis
Today
You
Age
Police
Cheating
Greedy
Politicians
Energy
Lying
Our
Out-Of-Control
Security
Entertainers
Corrupt
Crooked
Features
Main
Journalists
Nobody
Look
Police Officers
Sinister
Trusts
Officers
Authority
Bankers
Children
Anyone
Wherever
Companies
Rotten
Media
Services
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
Best
Liar
Lying
Way
He
Smallest
Longest
Makes
Go
Who
Amount
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
Man
Pride
Listening
Wife
Reading
Christian
Lying
Humility
Bach
State
Temperance
Eating
Higher
Go
His
Than
Thankfulness
Infinitely
Standards
Who
Preparing
Plato
Sleep
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx
Health
Stupid
Nothing
Lying
Nuts
Someday
Hospitals
Feel
Going
Dying
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin
Freedom
Lie
Equality
Political
Lying
Fraud
Pretense
Economic
Without
Political Freedom
Want
Workers
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
Loyalty
Obedience
Dog
Three
Before
Down
Lying
Importance
Learn
Around
Boy
Lot
Times
Turning
Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.
Jacque Fresco
Corruption
People
Cheating
Lying
Everyone
Ran
Resources
Earth
Way
Out
High
Would
Rather
Stealing
Most
Well-Being
Still
Were
Managing
Elected
Ethical
Even
Needed
Position
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Truth
Be Happy
Happy
Lying
Ways
Has-Been
Lied
Outside
No-One
Thrust
Been
Being
Being Lied To
Realm
Who
Pale
Two
The only way to cover up a lie? Keep lying.
Tomi Lahren
Lie
Cover-Up
Lying
Way
Only
Cover
Up
Keep
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells
Legal
Lying
Advertising
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
Perseverance
Dog
Pet
Three
Before
Down
Lying
Around
Boy
Times
Fidelity
Turn
Teaches
Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel
Lie
Lying
Never
Another
Us
Save
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
Silence
Words
Lying
Also
Done
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Truth
World
Carelessness
Lying
About
More
Falsehood
Than
Intentionally
Much
You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.
Steve Harvey
Relationship
You
Women
Lie
Nothing
Lying
Everybody
Minute
Guy
Push
Since
Well
Text
Texting
Reply
Six
Mean
Might
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art
Experience
Long
Enough
Lying
Draw
Pencil
Would
Would-Be
Only
Perfect
Colored
Had
Supreme
Altogether
Bed
Ceiling
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
Noam Chomsky
Truth
Democracy
History
Class
Training
Events
Minority
Ideology
Lying
Hidden
Distortion
Seek
Facilities
Through
Veil
Provides
Western
Privileged
Current
Behind
Leisure
Which
Interest
Us
Presented
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying
Must
Principle
Inexorably
Method
His
Anyone
Proclaimed
Choose
Who
Violence
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