"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."

Lie, Nothing, Pretty

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."

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 Daniel Ellsberg

"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."

Lie

"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress."

War

"Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill."

Decision

"There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare."

People

"If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."

War

"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."

Right

"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."

Question

"Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam."

War

"The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far."

Fact

"President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it."

People