“I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.” KnowsLightLyingDealsBehindsLeaderDoorsHappeningsShiningEndeavorClosed DoorsBack DoorsBehind Closed DoorsElected Leaders Author:Ted Cruz
“All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.” PeopleWorldWritingWellsPoliticalLyingPayComfortableHappeningsConcernClaimsQuaker Author:Storm Jameson
“Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."” ImportantLyingVoiceSilenceWorryHappeningsLoudSilence IsLoud Voices Author:A. M. Rosenthal
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.” PeopleKnowsHappensLyingLuckyLowsHappeningsIndiaIslandsCoastSwept Away Author:Margaret Atwood
“What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.” WorldLifeInspirationalHappinessLyingCertainLosesOur LivesFateHappeningsLive LifeControlledHappy LifeAlchemyAlchemistAlchemist LoveAlchemist BookLosing ControlPoints In LifeLife FateAmazing Book Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.” TryingBelieveLyingAbilityHappeningsSatTubes Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.
“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.” WantWellsI CanDoneMightLyingMy OwnStupidHugeDepressionHappeningsFaultsWaveSelf WorthEmptinessWrongBedroomNothingnessCurtainsDrowningDetachmentInadequateWashingNumbnessBad MoodSluggishLife Is Not Worth LivingFeeling EmptyWhat Did I Do Wrong Book:Cat's Eye Source: Cat's Eye
“Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.” MindHumansLyingHuman BeingsAnimalHappeningsDenialLied Author:Cesar Millan