Lying Quotes

"One is as healthy as the lies one tells."
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"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." ~ Dresden James
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"To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."- Lao-Tzu [Li Erh] (570-490 BC) 'Old Sage', Father of Taoism
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"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent." - William Blake : (1757-1827) English poet, painter, engraver
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"When the President starts lying he begins to need evidence to back up his lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements. It then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping the Boss if you come up with evidence that is supportive of our public position and you are distinctly unhelpful if you commit to paper statements that might leak to the wrong people.

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...." Daniel Ellsburg to the US Senate on Foreign Relations, May 13, 1970
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"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise" Adolf Hitler - German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party
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"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." --Henry Kissinger
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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." Socrates
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"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool." Stephen King

The men that American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H L Mencken (attributed: source unknown)
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“The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.” Mark Twain
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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." - Bertrand Russell

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