Ken MacLeod Quotes

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

Now we have a menace that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

… a demonstrable lie

People are not likely to lie on the Internet about the atomic number of Rubidium, but they will lie about history.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

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.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.

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

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.