Walter Benjamin Quotes

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

He is only honest who is not discovered.

[Ross Perot] thinks that proclaiming honesty is the same as being honest.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

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

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."