“There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.”
Max Brooks book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“To Live signifies to believe and hope — to lie and to lie to oneself.”
A Short History of Decay (1949)
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Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
To John Dean in April 1973 http://books.google.com/?id=JpRAAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22If+you+are+going+to+lie+you+go+to+jail+for+the+lie+rather+than+the+crime+So+believe+me+don't+ever+lie%22&pg=PA42. Dean was due to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee, which he did on 25 June 1973. <br class="br">1970s
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Quoted by Alex Haley, after a college campus speech, in the epilogue to The Autobiography.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"La vida es difícil. Para estar en paz con uno mismo hay que decir la verdad. Para estar en paz con el prójimo hay que mentir."
Descanso de caminantes, 2001.
“A lie twice believed is self decieved”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: A World Without Heroes
“A lie never lives to be old.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Acrisius, fragment 59.