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“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.”

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“...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn't begun that way, was nothing she'd planned, but now she saw that's how it was. I just ran a grocery, she thought. I don't want this. I ain't the one to make the world right.”

Justice Honesty Integrity Law Enforcement Epiphany Peacekeeper

Book:Volt

Source: Volt

“Vind je het goed als ik jou gebruik om mijn leven aan diggelen te gooien?”

Book:Een tafel vol vlinders

Source: Een tafel vol vlinders

“Erinnern, das heißt, eines Geschehens so ehrlich und rein zu gedenken, daß es zu einem Teil des eigenen Innern wird. Das stellt große Anforderungen an unsere Wahrhaftigkeit." [Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]”

Honesty Memory Remembrance Truthfulness

Author:Richard von Weizsäcker

“A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.”

Truth Honesty Liar

Author:Al David

“One lie can tarnish a thousand truths.”

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Author:Al David

“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.”

Love Relationships Honesty

Book:Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home.”

Life Reality Truth Honesty

Book:Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.”

Men Women Marriage Honesty Tricks Deception Attachment Cleverness Permanency

Book:The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. (Žižek, S. "Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks." London Review of Books 33.2 (2011): 9-10. )”

Philosophy Political Science Public Wikileaks Paradoxes

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!”

Author:Pollyanna Darling