Lying Quotes

“Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“When we undertake to deceive others intentionally, we communicate messages meant to mislead them, meant to make them believe what we ourselves do not believe. We can do so through gesture, through disguise, by means of action or inaction, even through silence.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“The role that one assigns to truthfulness will always remain central in considering what kind of person one wants to be—how one wishes to treat, not only other people, but oneself.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“Any awareness of how lies spread must generate a real sensitivity to the fact that most lies believed to be “white” are unnecessary if not downright undesirable.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“Honesty from health professionals matters more to patients than almost everything else that they experience when ill.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

“The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy.”
― Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life