top of page
Quote_1.png
Derrick Jensen

"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities."

Derrick Jensen, American Author
Lie, Lies, Living
Standard 
 Customized
"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities."

Exlpore more Lie quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher
Lie,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher
Lie, Lies, Opinion
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

William Wyler, American Director
Lie, Trying
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."

Junipero Serra, Spanish Clergyman
Lie, Lies, Reality
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

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

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist
Lie, Memory
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie."

Puff Daddy, American Musician
Lie,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie."

Yancy Butler, American Actress
Lie,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts."

Satchel Paige, American Athlete
Lie, Thoughts
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance."

Tom Allen, American Politician
Lie, Lies, Mystery, Nation, Ocean
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow."

Richard H. Davis, American Writer
Lie, Lies, Mountains, Snow

Explore more quotes by Derrick Jensen

Quote_1.png
Derrick Jensen
"No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet."
Death
Quote_1.png
Derrick Jensen
"Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical."
Writing
Quote_1.png
Derrick Jensen
"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities."
Lie
bottom of page