Dishonesty Quotes - Page 11

• Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

  Charles Curtis

  Lying, Bias And Prejudice, Hype

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• Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

  Walter Kaufmann

  Doe, World, Want

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• I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

  Alan Greenspan

  Life, Success, Business

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• Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Elude Us, Self

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wall, Real, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Winning, Two, White

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.688, Penguin UK

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• Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

  E. W. Howe

  Honesty, Powerful, Mistake

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• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, People, Intellectual

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• Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  "Creusa". Play by Sophocles, fragment 323,

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• Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

  Veronica Roth

  Motivation, Compassion, Self

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• We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and dishonesty. This needs to come into the open or there will never be peace in the hearts of us violated.

  Beyers Naude

  Heart, Justice, Suffering

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• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Pro Life, Abortion, Statistics

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• The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.

  Clement Freud

  Depressing, Animal, Years

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• Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like you and me and everybody else. You're not looking for someone who's recognizably evil or scary-looking, but rather someone who looks normal. Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects.

  Martha Stout

  Lying, People, Evil

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ten years ago if you would have told me that Mrs. Clinton would be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, I'd have never believed you. Her only qualifications for office are that she's Mr. Clinton's partner. And what does that mean? The two of them stand for dishonesty and corruption.

  Jackie Mason

  Mean, Years, Two

  Source: spectator.org

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• Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

  Dorothy Parker

  Honesty, Mean, Where You Are

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• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

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• Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

  Michael Barone

  Jobs, Police, Intellectual

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• Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

  Josephus

  Simplicity, Forever, Innovation

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• The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

  David Whyte

  Loss, Conscious, Form

  Source: spiritualityhealth.com

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• Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Thinking, Boomerang, Wells

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• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  Randeep Hooda

  Honesty, Two, Long

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• I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Two, Needs

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

  The Edge

  Trying, Popularity, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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