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Lying Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie…
- We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who…
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
- As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to…
- In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
- I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely... that…
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