Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
The average person tells a few white lies.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.