Quotes On Lying And Consequences

#1. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

#2. We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

Andrew Levkoff

#4. What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?
Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own apartment.

Suzanne Palmieri

#5. I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

Devin Kelley

#6. I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson

#7. There would be consequences to this weekend, I knew that now and I wasn't lying to myself anymore. But maybe they wouldn't all be negative. Maybe I would walk away a better person because of my encounter with this man. Yes, it sure was, life was wild.

Mia Sheridan

#8. The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

Mary McCarthy

#9. Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

L. Ron Hubbard

#10. As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

Ben Bradlee

#11. At nineteen, you can make out for hours, that goal-less, amorphous melting into someone else.

Carrie Brownstein

#12. Lying to yourself is easy, too. I know. It's much harder to stay and deal with consequences.

Maria V. Snyder

#13. I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#14. Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.

Patricia Briggs

#15. All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

Mark Billingham

#16. We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Jorge Luis Borges