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

    Betrayal   Lying   Secret  
    Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.105, Penguin
  • Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

    Soul   Noses   Faults  
    Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.84, Faber & Faber
  • Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

    Brother   Honesty   Twins  
    "Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged". Book by Charles Simmons, p. 20. Chapter: "Accuracy", 1852.
  • Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. 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. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

    Religious   Art   Real  
    "Salman Rushdie: ‘I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must’". blogs.wsj.com. January 07, 2015.
  • Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

  • The truth is more important than the facts.

    Wise   Witty   Truth  
    Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier
  • Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

    "Everybody’s Protest Novel". Essay by James A. Baldwin (1949), as quoted in "Uneasy Rider" by Alexandra Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2015.
  • The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.

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

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

    Source: spiritualityhealth.com
  • The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

    Sex   Television   Today  
  • There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

    Life   Honesty   Lying  
  • The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

    John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.729, Penguin UK
  • It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

    Lying   Men   Thinking  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation
  • The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

    Honesty   Night   Men  
    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”
  • The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.

  • You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

  • Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

    Honesty   Men   World  
  • Who lies for you will lie against you.

    Truth   Honesty   Lying  
  • People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

    Lying   Hype   People  
    Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

  • 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.

    W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

    Truth   Honesty   People  
  • The left has done a very admirably good job of demonizing the private sector, where what happens? Cheating, lying, dishonesty, destroying the planet, killing customers, starving people. And they've positioned themselves, of course, as the great compassionate last hope. They're the ones who truly care. We're not supposed to examine the results of their efforts, which are always dismal and always fail. We're supposed to examine their good intentions.

    Cheating   Jobs   Lying  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.

    Lonely   Art   Confused  
    "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Essay by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1997.
  • Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

    Truth   Attitude   Lying  
    Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

    "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". Alan Greenspan's commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. June 10, 1999.
  • 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.

    Lying   Order   Everyday  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

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