More quotations tagged with “lies”
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all.
—Thomas Merton
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
—George Orwell
That’s what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth.
—Laurell K. Hamilton in Guilty Pleasures
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
—Austin O'Malley
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
—Samuel Johnson