‘Everyone’s trading on this stuff; there’s not one person in my office who wasn’t.’ ibid. cheating trader
Over 40,000 people have participated in the Matrix experiments: nearly 70% cheated. ibid. caption
‘It’s not about the probability of being caught, it’s about the question of what is socially acceptable in our circle.’ ibid. Ariely
‘Our brain gets accustomed to lying because after a while the negative value or lying, the negative feeling, is just not there so much.’ ibid. Tali Sharot
‘And this is what I think corruption is all about: it’s not about being bad, it’s about being human.’ ibid. Ariely
‘Bankers vs Politicians: the bankers cheated twice as much.’ ibid.
‘Reminding people about their own moral fibre does change how people behave.’ ibid.
Psychopathic leaders: Having no shame and no conscience, they’re obviously natural-born liars, they’re able to liar without feeling any sense of shame. The Corbett Report July 2017, Our Leaders are Psychopaths, James Corbett online
Some of the globalist lies being told … GMO food is perfectly safe … The lie of quantitative easing … The Benghazi Incident … The phony War on Terror … Benjamin Netanyahu’s cartoonish props … The Corbett Report: Globalist Lies Exposed, James Corbett online 2021
Lies have always been used to sell war to a public that would otherwise be leery about sending their sons off to fight and die on foreign soil … A pretence for war is required to rally the nation around the flag and motivate the public to fight. The Corbett Report, Debinking a Century of War Lies, James Corbett online 2018
World War I: RMS Lusitania: Every facet of the story of the Lusitania as it has been presented to the public was a deliberate lie or a lie by omission. The boat was not a purely civilian vessel … ibid.
World War II: Pearl Harbor is best understood as a conspiracy to motivate the American public for war. ibid.
1931: Japan was looking for a pretext to invade Manchuria. ibid.
Korea was arbitrarily divided along the 38th parallel … Neither was the war itself the organic result of decisions taken by the Korean people. ibid.
Vietnam: In August 1964 President Johnson was preoccupied in finding an excuse to justify a formal escalation of American military involvement in Vietnam. That excuse came on August 2nd when the USS Maddox – a destroyer supposedly on a peaceful mission in international waters – reported a surprise attack … The story of the Maddox too had been a tissue of lies. ibid.
The 6-Day War in 1967 between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan is yet another example of a war which was justified for reasons that were later exposed as lies. ibid.
Gulf War I: They hired a literal PR firm to sell an even more brazen set of lies to Joe-6-Pack and Jane-Soccer-Mum. ibid.
Gulf War II: Also built on lies ... The rest of the media quickly fell into line. ibid.
Libya Intervention: Human rights and protecting the innocent is a more effective lie … ibid.
‘I have been a liar. And the truth is not in me.’ Warren Jeffs, FLDS prophet, cited Prophet’s Prey, 2015
Some people cannot believe that a magician can fool them in such a way that the can’t figure it out. But magicians can and magicians do. Swindlers do, con-men do, all the time. They’re not magicians: they’re fakes. They’re lying to us. They’re deceiving us. It’s OK to fool people as long as you’re doing that to teach them a lesson. Which will better their knowledge of how the real world works. James Randi, An Honest Liar, 2014
It’s been my experience that people lie, a lot of people lie, in Washington; they have no reverence for the truth. The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee, Sky Atlantic 2018
I thought I had found the perfect car … The ads sucked me in … What I didn’t know was that I was driving a killing machine … ‘Volkswagen Shares Tumble Following Emissions Allegations’ … VW had lied to me: they had pitched me a vision of my dream car that was polluting fifty times more than advertised. Dirty Money I: Hard Nox, Netflix 2018
How could a company have lied to its customers on such a massive scale? ibid.
Diesel exhaust disgorges much nastier stuff. ibid.
‘The pressure on everybody to increase sales became unbearable.’ ibid. VW executive
The cheating and how to handle it was an open secret among many executives in Germany. ibid.
‘This was a corporate culture permeated by fraud.’ ibid. lawyer
VW was forced to pay over $25 billion in fines. ibid.
They [countries] are willing to look the other way when companies cheat. ibid.
Did you ever tell a lie? Even a little one? Is technology making it easier for us to lie? Or maybe nothing ever changes and dishonesty is just a timeless part of human nature. Could society function in a world without lying or secrets? Dishonesty might be so widespread because we’re so easily fooled and our memories are fallible. Can we ever see the true nature of reality? Or is truth just a lie? Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole s6e6: Why Do We Lie? Science 2015
Mary, a successful marriage is based on a wife letting her husband lie a little. The Mob 1951 starring Broderick Crawford & Betty Buehler & Richard Kiley & Otto Hulett & Matt Crowley & Neville Brand & Ernest Borgnine & Jean Alexander & John Marley & Charles Bronson & Walter Klavun et al, director Robert Parrish, him to her
It is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home; we will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. The Truth about the Lies, Obama, Wolvoman80, Youtube 1.21.31
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it. ibid. Obama
Iraq has chemical and biological weapons. ibid. Blair
We would keep the winter fuel allowance. ibid. Cameron
Inquiry Exposes Massive Israeli US Media Manipulation Campaign. ibid. RT News
The shut-up line has happened only once in six years. ibid. Fox News O’Reilly Factor
As Mayor I took a voluntary paycut. ibid. Sarah Palin
I will cut tens of billions of dollars on wasteful spending. ibid. Obama
I intend to close Guantanamo and I will follow through on that. ibid.
I’m going to make sure we don’t torture. ibid.
Deception is an integral part of human nature. And it’s estimated we all lie up to nine times a day. But what if we created a world in which we couldn’t lie? Horizon: A Week Without Lying – The Honesty Experiment, BBC 2018
Around three-quarters of us admit to telling white lies; they account for around 80% of the fibs we tell. ibid.
We lie to a third of people in our lives. ibid.
If the void is infused with conviction, blind belief, brainwashing and fear, it grows and moves up through the emptiness, and then emerges as pure crap. Creationist Junk Debunked ***** 2008
Most of these fundamentalist preachers of course have no science training … There’s no excuse for deliberate falsification. ibid.
The most brazen lies you can find … The Fairbanks Creek mammoth myth has been copied again and again without any checks as to its veracity …. ibid.
… Nebraska man … ‘These are no transitional forms’ … They do believe that Saturn’s rings prove that the universe is young … Yes there were tiny dinosaurs … ‘We don’t find one of these: a crocoduck’ [Kirk Cameron] … Peanut Butter man [Chuck Missler] … Ray Comfort’s banana … Pretending there’s a mystery where there is none … ibid.
The threat has been the weapon of choice for priests in every major religion since the time of the pharaohs. ibid.
‘A story of epic mismanagement’ … ‘A desperate people resorting to desperate measures’ … ‘He’s [Maduro] bent Venezuela’s democratic process to his will’ … ‘He’s turned down food and medicine.’ Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Leftist Crushes John Oliver’s Venezuela Episode, John Oliver, 2018
Healthcare expanded to 60% of population … 2 million new homes for the poor … 20,000 children’s school provided with new computers … ibid.
The gift of a good liar is making people think you lack a good talent for lying. House of Cards s2e6: Chapter 19, Frank to Tusk, Netflix 2014