Dishonesty Quotes

(1970, when accepting the Screen Writers Guild Laurel Award) The blacklist was a time of evil, and no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil. Caught in a situation that had passed beyond the control of mere individuals, each person reacted as his nature, his needs, his convictions, and his particular circumstances compelled him to. There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on both sides. When you who are in your 40s or younger look back with curiosity on that dark time, as I think occasionally you should, it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. Some suffered less than others, some grew and some diminished, but in the final tally we were all victims because almost without exception each of us felt compelled to say things he did not want to say, to do things that he did not want to do, to deliver and receive wounds he truly did not want to exchange. That is why none of us - right, left, or center - emerged from that long nightmare without sin.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There`s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn`t a gift. It`s a responsibility.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it`s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

He (Brown) is a man with grandiose schemes, no doubt attracted by the glamour of sporting clubs, but he has been prepared to use dishonesty to keep these afloat by ignoring the rules of business.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.