Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
Dale CarnegieTags: life inspirational people dishonesty general-obregon-s-philosophy
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PlatoTags: fear willful-ignorance darkness light dishonesty
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Tags: shakespeare society values reputation slander value dishonesty good-name libel standing theft
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellTags: morality conscience hell cruelty dishonesty double-standards
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Henry KissingerTags: politics corruption dishonesty
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand RussellTags: politics democracy humour funny revolution communism dishonesty socialism politicians
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.
Charlotte BrontëTags: lies dishonesty
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Thomas JeffersonTags: lying dishonesty
Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures".
Myron FaganTags: politics democracy corruption dishonesty politicians
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
Sigmund FreudTags: religion dishonesty athiesm
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