Martin Luther Quotes

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Know that a lie is not haram [wrong] in itself, but only because the evil conclusions to which it leads the hearer, making him believe something that is not really the case.... If a lie is the only way of obtaining a good result, it is permissible.... We must lie when truth leads to unpleasant results.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.