Ani DiFranco Quotes

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.