Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

[Allen Dulles] was not above misleading Congress or his colleagues or even his commander in chief.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.

Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business, and no one is friends.

We learned that Trump had not given a million dollars away. When Corey Lewandowski told me that, it was a lie.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.