Dishonesty Quotes

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.

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

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

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

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press. I think new media is a great way to get out the truth.

I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

The level of dishonesty is out of control.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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

Donald Trump is a liar because he is a coward. It is fear and cowardice that make him lie. it is his fragile ego that makes him lie.

In short Donald Trump lies compulsively in large part because of who and what he is - a coward. This is why Mike Brzezinski said recently, "He brings nothing to the table.