I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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.
The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
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.
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
There is nothing more distressing. . . than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.