Mendacity Quotes by John Hay

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• One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell
• Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity. — Hans F. Sennholz
• WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have… — Ambrose Bierce
• I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call… — Jimmy Swaggart
• Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter. — John Hay
• If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to… — Sally Mann
• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear… — Ezra Pound
• Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton

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