Quotes about Dishonesty

Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are most convenient to that end and will seek to justify them by the most plausible arguments they are able to devise.

Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it.

One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.