"The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously."

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Source : Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian (2000). “Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian”, p.51, South End Press

Eqbal Ahmad

#Lying Quotes #Liars Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes

“It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.”

Source : Paul Kurtz (1994). “Living Without Religion: Eupraxophy”
“After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.”

Source : "One-line genius" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.
“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com
“I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.”
“No one's on at my time but infomercials.”
“This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.”
“I'm completely hooked on polo.”
“Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true value, but because there are too many bidders and buyers to have the same thing at the resale value.”

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