Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.