Lies Quotes - Page 13

So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven’t deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you’ll believe them enough to repeat them to other with the genuine conviction that they’re true.”
"Something like that,” I conceded uneasily.

I feel like people are so accustomed to comfort...now in days the truth to things is uncomfortable, so people avoid it. & sugarcoat things into a lie..

Sometimes the truth may be insensitive but I rather know it , then live in the unknown.

Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?
Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.

Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.
By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game than before.

Every lie needs, and gives birth to, another lie

Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

If we talk Lies, we have to tell another set of lies to cover the first lie!
And most of the time we forget what we told the first time !
If we tell the truth, we don't have to remember anything.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me.