I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

False leaders create followers by lying.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

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

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.