Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into… — Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison Copy Share Image
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone… — Isaac Cline Copy Share Image
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
