Dishonesty Quotes

Dishonesty Quote of the day

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

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

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

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

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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

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

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

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

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.