Charles Dickens Quotes

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

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

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Politicians often lie.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

… a man well known for his congenital inability to tell the truth

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

Lying is one of the techniques of politicians .... They are economical with the truth.

The connection between humbug and politics is too long established to be challenged.

The first sign of corruption in a society ... is that the ends justify the means.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

There are at least eighty liars in the convention.