Lie Quotes – Insights on Truth and Deception

"No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient."

Arthur Miller

"When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."

Theodore Dalrymple

"Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies"

Tupac Shakur

"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."

Michael Jackson

"I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me."

Alan Kay

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right."

George Orwell

"Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, though sure, are slow and solemn, and she has neither vigour nor activity enough to pursue and overtake her enemy…"

Thomas Francklin

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes"

Jonathan Swift

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."

Aldous Huxley

"A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality."

Solon

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

Denis Diderot

"Fake have become so normal that people now feel offended by honesty."

Unbekannt

"It is better to be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie."

Unknown

"Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth."

Eduard Douwes Dekker

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Oscar Wilde

"For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular."

H. L. Mencken

"Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders."

Walter Cronkite Jr.

"The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain the freedom of life by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death. Evil is the master of deceit. The objective of evil is not violence, but obedience. The purpose of violence is to compel obedience. Its design is the destruction of freedom. Whether submitting to authority and obeying, or allowing it to destroy you physically, you will have lost your freedom. The only way to maintain freedom is to fight tyranny at all times and at all costs."

Jeremy Locke