Some Truths About Lies

boris johnson on the way out

When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth

Fyodor Dostoevsky: The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. 


Adolf Hitler: If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.


André Malraux: Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.


Plato: False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.


Boris Johnson: “Everybody across politics should follow the rules.”


The lies, falsehoods and misrepresentations of Boris Johnson and his government.

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