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“If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.”

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David Frum

David Frum, born on June 30, 1960, is a renowned speechwriter. His career began in the political field, where he has written speeches for several political figures. Frum's works are known for their clear and forceful language style, which has won him a wide audience. more

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.”

Knows Believe Two Use Lying Party Opinion Knowing Democracy Impossible Honesty Morality Integrity Conscious Logic Claims Citizenship Guardian

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?”

People Knows Seems Young Hours Wonder Honesty Youth Ought Periods Sorrow Golden Permanent One Time Accuracy Setback Golden Hour

Author:Vera Brittain

“It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.”

People Said Government Fronts Honesty Deserve Ignorant Citizenship Benches Orators Electorate

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”

Men Mind Believe Doe Crime Honesty Integrity Prepared Hypocrisy Citizenship Chastity Honest Truth Religion And Government Age Of Reason

Book:The Age of Reason, etc

Source: The Age of Reason, etc

“One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.”

People Needs Suffering Given Compassion Successful Honesty Achievement Comfortable Tests Mood Primaries Underprivileged

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.”

Real Matter Names Differences Honest Honesty Integrity Weight Being Honest Agreement Being Real

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.”

Love Order Strong Risk Honesty Integrity Healthy Benefits Criticism Ears Endure Remarkable Criticize Judged Venture Offending Healthy Love

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.”

Ifs Men World Should Mind Made Stars Rocks Crime Honesty Forgiving Every Man Being True Torture Merciful If There Is A God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."”

Men Way Children Home Lying Left Boys Honest Honesty Policy He Man Our Children Best Way Being Honest Your Children Maine Honesty Is The Best Policy

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

Art Whole Government Honest Honesty Being Honest Citizenship Honest Government

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

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