George Carlin Quotes

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

It is the oldest story in the coverage of Government: The failure to tell the truth.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you want to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I keep reading between the lies.

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.