When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Quotations
Lie
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
A liar lies to himself as well as to the gods. Lying is the origin of all evils; it leads to rebirth in the miserable planes of existence, to breach of the pure precepts, and to corruption of the body.
-Maharatnakuta Sutra 27
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
-Robert Paul “Tad” Williams
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
-Hannah Arendt
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
