Dishonesty Quotes (26 Quotes)

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary Advantages.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Aside from the strictly moral standpoint, honesty is not only the best policy, but the only possible policy from the standpoint of business relations. The fulfillment of the pledged word is of equal necessity to the conduct of all business. If we expect and demand virtue and honor in others, the flame of both must burn brightly within ourselves and shed their light to illuminate the erstwhile dark corners of distrust and dishonesty.... The truthful answer rests for the most part within ourselves, for like begets like. Honesty begets honesty trust, trust and so on through the whole category of desirable practices that must govern and control the world's affairs.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

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.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

It's highly, highly critical of his reliability. They should have the truth before them, his prior conviction for dishonesty. There is no crime that's more probative than lying to a jury.

God help us, ma'am Do you see what we saw We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

Unless and until the state, city and county learn there are victims of corruption ... (and) unless and until people who vote understand that there are important consequences in their public officials' acts of dishonesty, this system will not change.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

If individuals are intent on cheating, they can be quite creative in their efforts. What they need to know is that we are working harder than ever before to ferret out dishonesty, waste, fraud, abuse and inefficiencies. We are going to come to work every day and do our very best to safeguard tax payer dollars and see that they are spent as they were meant to be.

We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Schwarzenegger now hopes to bring the common Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda to this bluest of blue states. I am hopeful that the people of California will see through the governor's deception and dishonesty.

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Personal deficiencies might be termed negative qualities and include unreliability, failure to cooperate, laziness, untidiness, trouble making, interference and dishonesty. Positive qualities would include willingness, cheerfulness, courtesy, honesty, neatness, reliability and temperance. Many fail in their work because they are unable to overcome one personal deficiency. Check up on yourself. Don't be afraid to put yourself under a microscope. Eliminate your negative qualities. Develop your positive ones. You can't win with the check mark in the wrong place.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.