#dishonest

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#dishonest #live #something

Anger cannot be dishonest. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#cannot #dishonest

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

#case #dishonest #give #honest #how

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State. ↗

— John Burns

#dishonest #disloyal #greatest #his #kicked

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#dishonesty #double-standards #morality #vice #vanity

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#greed #honesty #rigged-economic-system #business

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#american people #colleagues #congress #dishonest #ever

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#between #differences #dishonest #hard #hard working

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#citizen #democracy #dishonesty #enough #every

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ↗

— Ivan Goncharov

#avoid #dishonest #making #needed #offer