Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

If integrity is considered a virtue, it may be because most people lack integrity. Also, as only a few succeed in their pursuits, some may link failure with a lack of integrity. But this is...

I wouldn’t mind politicians lying to me, stealing from me, or senselessly making life difficult if they didn’t try to claim they were looking out for my best interest. How refreshing it’d be to see...

Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other’s eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth...

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

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

Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing...

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.

Many people in a rather reckless context claim to ‘just tell it like it is’. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is...

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?””Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…””Everythings...

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. … The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and...

One percent of people will always be honest and never steal,” the locksmith said. “Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest...

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make