Ted Haggard Quotes

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

I don't think it is good if everyone says 'yes' when they mean 'no.'

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

The act is in itself a lie. You're faking something. The girl is lying there, she's pretending that she doesn't know the camera's on, she's getting banged, and "accidentally" it leaks out? Everyone leaks their own sex tapes! That's a ploy to get famous - that's not about the sex. It's not like when Madonna did her Sex book, and it was an artistic endeavor where she acknowledged it and spoke about it and was so upfront about it. It's different. It's not upfront. It's not honest. It's a ploy to get famous.

All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.