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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.


Norodom Sihanouk


#history #inevitably #lies #place #them

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.


Carl L. Becker


#historians #history #age

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful


Malaclypse the Younger


#lie #lies #beauty

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.


Neil Postman


#disinformation #facade #falsities #politics #show-business

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

Selling something only to steal it back to sell again is not only dishonest, but highly profitable.


Jarod Kintz


#funny #profitable #selling #steal #funny

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#approval #black-humor #disapproval #dishonesty #funny

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.


William Shakespeare


#deceit #dishonesty #falsehood #hearts #honesty

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.


Geoffrey Chaucer


#dishonesty #evil #gender #inequality #men

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18


Rudyard Kipling


#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics






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