Dishonesty Quotes

315 Dishonesty quotes by 241 unique authors

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained… — Thomas Paine
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from. — Emily Post
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie. — Juvenal
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had… — Bill Cosby
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is… — Leonard Read
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human… — Irving Langmuir
When truth is divided, errors multiply. — Eli Siegel
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. — John Quinton
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy… — Dalton Trumbo
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such… — Daniel Dennett
If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future. — John Spence
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know… — Napoleon Hill
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty… — Woodrow Wyatt
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. — Plato
No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty. — Teri Garr
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty. — Herbert Hoover
Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news… — Bernard Nathanson
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their… — Robert Greene
The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a… — Clement Freud
The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it. — Frank Ocean

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