"People think that a liar gains a victory……" — Ayn Rand

"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."

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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the… — John Stuart Mill
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives… — Daniel Ellsberg
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one… — Ayn Rand
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how… — Geoffrey Rush
Voter apathy is a civic abdication. — Charles M. Blow
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not… — Olusegun Obasanjo
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather… — Carl Bernstein
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. — Simone Weil
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. — R. D. Laing
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment… — Fulton J. Sheen

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