“The miserly one is never restful; the envious is never pleased; the grumbler is never loyal; the liar has no conscience.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 446-450.
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“Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary”
A Critique of Just War Doctrine http://archive.org/details/JustWarTheoryCritique (1921) by Ben Salmon, pp.86–87
Context: Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] ‘judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,’ because it is never necessary.
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode IV, Into the Light (28 October 2012)
Stone interview http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7371967/the_gunslinger/Rolling, May 24, 2005
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
iTunes interview (released June 2, 2007)
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