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#dishonesty

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #dishonesty




The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.


Abu Bakr


#falsehood #greatest #honesty #truth #truth is

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.


Horace Mann


#appointment #borrow #clear #dishonesty #his

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

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

[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

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.


Erich Fromm


#double-standards #envy #hate #indignation #morality

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.


Tom Clancy


#fiction #politics #politicians

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


Nathaniel Hawthorne


#brother #dishonesty #honesty #inaccuracy #twin

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.


John Steinbeck


#discipline #dishonesty #punishes #stupidity #word






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