Quotes on Lying

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.