Art Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Lying Politics
It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal. — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling. — David Geffen Copy Share Image
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special… — Peter Schuyler Copy Share Image
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Politics isn't my cup of tea. I can't lie all the time, beg for votes or put down other politicians. — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
