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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I was transfixed with horror, and over me there swept the sudden conviction that that hanging was a mistake — worse, a crime. It was my awakening to one of the most terrible facts of life — that justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life.

Truth exists, only lies are invented.

We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

Christopher Dawson

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Norodom Sihanouk

The essence of mathematics lies entirely in its freedom.

A word about the title—"Nature's Miracles." Some may claim that it is unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things—as wonderful as any miracle that was ever recorded—subservient to the rule of law. "But," you say, "a miracle does not come under any rule of law." Ah! are you sure of that? It is true that we may not understand the law that the so-called miracle comes under, but the Author of all natural law does.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

Marguerite Yourcenar

She [Lady Desborough] tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

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

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles Dudley Warner

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. For example: Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast, but it's a killer grenade and everybody dies anyway. Before they die, though, one of the dead guys says, "The fuck you do that for?" and the jumper says, "Story of my life, man" and other guys start to smile but he's dead. That's a true story that never happened.