The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Michael Ende

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning Hamilton

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
Chris Christie

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Helen Rowland

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Ice Cube

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la Bruyere

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Johan Huizinga