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
Quotations
Lie
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"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
