"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."

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"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

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"Weaklings must lie."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

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"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

Ken Kesey, American Author

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"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

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"Lying can never save us from another lie."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

Evan Esar, American Writer

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"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

Adolf Hitler, German Criminal

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"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

Experience

"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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"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

Power

"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."

Religion

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

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"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position."

Politics

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

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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."

Education

"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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"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

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