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Lies Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
- The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is…
- The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- 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…
- There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
- Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows…
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- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila
- Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. — Francis Bacon
- I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. — David Bailey
- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin