“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.” LyingSecurityHealthyMembersBasesInstinctAbsenceUnconsciousCustomsStabilityOrganisms Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.” ShouldLyingAll ThingsErrorsDustCall MeCustomsAntiques Author:Brand Blanshard
“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.” WritingTryingHardLyingCoursesHouseGrowsPresidentDealsEnemyEasierRepublicanTruth IsDespairHarderInstanceLuxuryTelling The TruthHardshipCustomsPresident ObamaAccustomedLeaksMeaninglessnessFukushima Author:Tony Kushner
“We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.” DifferentCountryBodyLyingCultureLanguageDifficultWiseCoachesHardestHelpfulCustomsThroatAccentsHardest ThingDialectAdvisors Author:Leonardo DiCaprio