#dishonest

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#historians #history #age

Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful ↗

— Malaclypse the Younger

#lie #lies #beauty

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether. ↗

— Neil Postman

#disinformation #facade #falsities #politics #show-business

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

— Sigmund Freud

#dishonesty #religion #religion

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#between #differences #dishonest #hard #hard working

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#broken-hearts #dishonesty #growth #hearts #judgement

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#honesty #humanity-and-society #theives #men

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#away #because #dishonest #disturbance #does

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#city #dishonest #ever #freaks #i

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#believe #blame #character #dishonesty #flaws