Plato Quotes

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

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

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

[Richard Cheney is] an unabashed bender of the truth.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.