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Lie Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only…
- The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside…
- Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the…
- But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it…
- Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but…
- These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never…
- He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which…
- What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power…
- We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the…
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- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
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- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
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- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
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- The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. — Alfred Adler
- It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. — Alfred Adler