Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotes to Explore
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
Felix Dennis
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
Ian Mckellen
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
Rafael Nadal
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
Ramon Rodriguez
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
Eric Lynn Wright
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran
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Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.
Tony Kushner
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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.
John Stuart Mill
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As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.
Vernon Reid
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
