Carl Jung Quotes

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

In politics where immediate success is attained by saying what people can be made to believe, rather than what is demonstrably true, accent is generally placed on the desirable rather than on the possible.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

We do ourselves as politicians no favours if we are seen to peddle unachievable moonshine.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.