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#1

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

tags: lies, lying, truth

#2

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: lies, secrets

1206 likes

#3

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott, Marmion

tags: deception, honesty, inspirational, lies, truth

1072 likes

#4

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

496 likes

#5

“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

tags: beliefs, lies, power

604 likes

#6

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness

1167 likes

#7

“The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.”
― Ambrose Bierce

tags: bluffing, lies

58 likes

#8

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true

1700 likes

#9

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

tags: lies

145 likes

#10

“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.”
― Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult

tags: brick, fairy-tale, lies, sham, truth, wall

27 likes

#11

“People only lie because they are afraid of the truth”
― Madison Reil

tags: fear, honesty, lies, truth

31 likes

#12

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books

tags: distortion, falsehood, lies, truth

105 likes

#13

“Lying is a thriving vocation.”
― Susanna Centlivre

tags: lies, lying, medieval

8 likes

#14

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: deception, lying

715 likes

#14

“Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: betrayal, conscience

459 likes

#15

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, lying

599 likes

#16

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6205 likes

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