“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
~ RandAtlas Shrugged
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
~ Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.”
~ José N. Harris
“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.”
~ Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.”
~ Chuck Klosterman
“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
~ Miguel de Unamuno
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