Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption -- no, for the Lie, as Virtue, as Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains.
My complaint, simply concerns the decay of the art of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted. ... If this finest of the fine art arts had everywhere received the attention, encouragement, and conscientious practice and development which this club has devoted to it, I should not need to utter this lament, or cry a single tear. I do not say this to flatter. I say it in a spirit of just and appreciative recognition.more Mark Twain quotes |
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.more Sun Tzu quotes |
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Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence.more Unknown quotes |
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Integrity is not a conditional word.
It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.
It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there
and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.more Unknown quotes |
Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.more Unknown quotes |
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.more Unknown quotes |
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Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance.more Hendrik van Loon quotes |
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.more Richard A. Viguerie quotes |
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.more Voltaire quotes |
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.more Voltaire quotes |
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.more Voltaire quotes |
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Your book is dedicated
by the soundest reason.
You had better get out of France
as quickly as you can.more Voltaire quotes |
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.more Voltaire quotes |
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There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.more Ludwig von Mises quotes |
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No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.more Daniel Webster quotes |
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.more Daniel Webster quotes |
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You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger… Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.more William Allen White quotes |
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.more Oscar Wilde quotes |
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.more Tad Williams quotes |
There is such a thing as a nation being so right it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.more Woodrow Wilson quotes |
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth, or it is an error; it can never be a crime or a virtue.more Frances Wright quotes |
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.more Lin Yutang quotes |
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Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best.more Frank Zappa quotes |
