Dishonesty Quotes

We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.

FLATTERY is nothing, but false friendship, fawning hypocrisy, dishonest civility, base merchandise of words…

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

You are a den of vipers and thieves ... by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

He [Henry Clay] is certainly the basest, meanest scoundrel that ever disgraces the image of God—nothing too mean or low for him to condescend to.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

A half truth is a whole lie.

If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.

[Political] offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct.