Demosthenes Quotes

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

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

I abhor hypocrisy.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

Each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.