"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Lie, Man, Violence

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"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

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"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."

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"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."

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"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."

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"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."

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"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"

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"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."

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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

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"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

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"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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