Jim Hightower Quotes

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

I keep reading between the lies.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

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

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

Lies require commitment.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!