Malcolm X Quotes

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Honesty will never break you.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

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

I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

I abhor hypocrisy.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

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

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.