Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

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

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Truth is often attended with danger

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

Plain lies are dangerous.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

A lie cannot live.

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

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

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

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.