A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

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

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

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.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

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.

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

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

False leaders create followers by lying.