The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Thomas Jefferson

Mots clés honesty government

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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Albert Camus

Mots clés truth honesty absurd existentialism seeking

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes

Mots clés truth honesty deception believe lie desire wish blindness self-reflecting

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All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés honesty stupidity

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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

Mots clés truth honesty women lies stories

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And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

Jack Kerouac

Mots clés honesty uncertainty fragility narrowness

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What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Terry Pratchett

Mots clés honesty morality belief religion decency

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In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

Czesław Miłosz

Mots clés truth honesty integrity democracy virtue dissent heroes truth-telling

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Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

William Shakespeare

Mots clés honesty

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In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.

H.L. Mencken

Mots clés humor politics honesty hate united-states trust corruption common-sense force decency american politicians republic

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