These demagogic non sequiturs undercut conservative claims to value the truth. And that has policy consequences: the supposedly conservative Pence and company have been pushing the lie for a week now that the free market is a failure and case-by-case economic fascism from above is the solution to lo…
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Quotes tagged ‘Lies’
Please don’t fall for the garbage and the lies. My military service has been attacked by people who have never picked up a rifle and manned a post.
He knows the truth. I know the truth. Others know the truth. And here is the truth: People of the United States of America, people of the world, don’t believe what he is saying. The man doesn’t tell the truth. And it is sad that I should take responsibility for his dirty deeds.
No one tells a lie after he's said he's going to tell one.
— Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Commoner, Kichijirô Ueda, imdb.com
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
— Carlo Collodi, Ted Sears, The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited), Evelyn Venable, imdb.com
Governments change... the lies stay the same.
— Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein, Michael France, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, imdb.com
A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.
— Carter Bays, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com
i’m not scared of the monsters hidden underneath my bed. i’m much more scared of the boys with messy brown hair, sleepy eyes, & mouths that only now how to form half-truths. - my dragons.
Then I start to think, what difference does it make? If we lie?
Kevin Jackson: Jefferson used to sleep with his slaves. The book don't say nothin' about that. They don't even say how he even had slaves. Washington neither. So I don't see why I should bust my black ass reading about a bunch of lies. Harvey Lipschultz: Well, you see Mr. Jackson, my job is to see t…
— David E Kelley, Harvey Lipschultz, Fyvush Finkel, imdb.com
Johann Schmidt: No matter what lies Erskine told you, you see, I was his greatest success! [Schmidt removes his face mask and reveals his face as the Red Skull to Steve and Bucky] James 'Bucky' Barnes: [to Steve] You don't have one of those, do you?
— Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus, Johann Schmidt / Red Skull, Hugo Weaving, imdb.com
I lied for you once. Don’t ask me to do it again.
Already know you going lie to me, ain't no need to discuss it.
When you say the thing that's not, that's a lie.
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to.
Your own government lies as a matter of course, as a matter of policy…
You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in.
Would you lie for me? Cross your sorry heart and hope to die for me?
You know the lies they always told you. And the love you never knew.
There's a jetstream of bullshit coming out of your mouth my friend, you are busted buddy!