One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
Al DavidTags: truth lies power-of-words lying liars
It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.
Howard ZinnTags: lies american-dream hard-work victim-blaming falsity-of-the-american-dream indignation-of-the-poor
It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
Jeffrey EugenidesIn the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.
Megan ChanceTags: honesty lies belief bodies
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
Anne RiceAn alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, step by powerful step, along the shore to find the sun. And everything that ever said otherwise--all those years of school, and the plays and moving pictures that promise you can be someone else, something more--they were all lies.
Emily WhitmanToday the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
John BergerTags: lies society media distort
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
John BergerTags: lies society media culture
But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
Anne RiceTags: lies
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