Albert Camus Quotes

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

I don't like to tell lies.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

I just have an inability to lie.

Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

I'm not one for lying to children.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.