Dishonesty Quotes

• The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Quality

• The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Change

• The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • inspirational
  • Dishonesty

• It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Cheat
  • Dishonesty

• I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Politics
  • Political Correctness
  • Cesspool

• The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Create
  • Popularity
  • Cheat

• I would, my lord, that all men knew my conversation and living in all points, for I am so sure of myself this hour, that there is none able to prove any dishonesty in me. If you know any who can do it, I pray you bring them forth

  

  Anne Askew
  • Living
  • Conversation
  • Dishonesty

• they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Mean
  • Morality
  • Dishonesty

• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

  

  Bernard Nathanson
  • Public
  • Fed
  • Fabrication

• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  

  Plato
  • Honesty
  • Dishonesty
  • Profitable

• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religion
  • Guilty
  • Questions

• Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Dishonesty
  • Social Life
  • Involves

• Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

  

  Norodom Sihanouk
  • History
  • Lies
  • Dishonesty

• Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Honest
  • Direct
  • Products

• I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • Character
  • Envy
  • Shame

• Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

  

  Celia Green
  • Clarity
  • Lack
  • Dishonesty

• Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

  

  Melissa Rauch
  • Vulnerable
  • Dishonesty

• In their condescending assumption that belief in God could only be the product of wishful thinking, stupidity, ignorance, or intellectual dishonesty; in their corresponding refusal seriously to consider the possibility that that belief might be true and the arguments for it sound; and in their glib supposition that the only rational considerations relevant to the question are “scientific” ones, rather than philosophical; in all of these attitudes, Flew’s critics manifest the quintessential mindset of modern secularism. And insofar as its self-satisfied a priori dismissal of outsiders as benighted, and of defectors as wicked or mad, insulates it from ever having to deal with serious criticism, it is a mindset that echoes the closed-minded prejudice and irrationality it typically attributes to religious believers themselves.

  

  Edward Feser
  • God
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• The media needs to do some soul searching on itself and ask why they continue to spread provably false stories, and stop projecting their own dishonesty onto others.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Needs
  • Media
  • Continue

• The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

  

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Brutality

• Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

  

  Woodrow Wyatt
  • Succeed
  • Politician
  • Cynical

• I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and as unemotional as I could, and let readers make their own judgments on what happened. And, in fact, that's how I write poetry. I'm trying to present the reader with the experience itself, not with my commentary on it. So I adopted a style that I'd hoped would let me accomplish that.

  

  Dan Burt
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Style

• Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • World
  • Political
  • Leader