#dishonesty

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

— Norodom Sihanouk

#history #inevitably #lies #place #them

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

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

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

— Sigmund Freud

#dishonesty #religion #religion

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cruelty #dishonesty #double-standards #hell #morality

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

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#brother #dishonesty #honesty #inaccuracy #twin

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#certain #dishonesty #endure #endures #everyday

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