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Lying Quotes by Bell Hooks
- When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
- Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love
- Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to.…
- While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping…
- Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
More Lying Quotes
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- 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