Leonard Peltier Quotes

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

To have lied is to have suffered.

I have done nothing wrong.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Did I kill anyone?

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble ... deny your responsibility.

I am responsible but not guilty!

Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!