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Lying Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them…
- It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
- The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even…
- In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has…
- Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
- In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
- Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
- The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
- The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
- The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
- Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object…
- You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph.…
- It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the…
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- 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
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius