"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles."

Lie, Lies, Man

49

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles."

Exlpore more Lie quotes

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

Lie, Consciousness, Potential, Waking

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Lie,

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Lie, Man, Violence

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Lie,

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Lie, Sickness, Words

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Lie, Old

"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

Lie, Soul, Danger, Doubt

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Lies, Silence

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Lie, Country, State

"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

Lie, Destiny, Fathers, Fatigue

Explore more quotes by Phil Ochs

"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."

Act

"When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right."

Society

"There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."

Poetry

"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life."

Life

"And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara."

Hope

"Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality."

Reality

"God isn't dead - he's just missing in action."

God

"Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?"

Liberalism

"The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad."

Ability

"In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty."

Beauty