Sam Harris Quotes

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Trust makes way for treachery.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

Everything would have been all right if Hitler hadn't lied to me.

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

I don't like talking about cheaters.

I know what it feels like to lie to people. I know what it feels like for people not to trust you.

Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.

I hate when people cheat.

Eddie's up there. He's lyin' to somebody, he's cheatin' somebody, and he's stolen all of our hearts.