„All I have is a voiceTo undo the folded lie,The romantic lie in the brainOf the sensual man-in-the-streetAnd the lie of AuthorityWhose buildings grope the sky:There is no such thing as the StateAnd no one exists alone;Hunger allows no choiceTo the citizen or the police;We must love one another or die.“

— W. H. Auden

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„Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast that black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who dug a well in a desert.“
— John Ruskin
„One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.“
— Harper Lee
„Autumn is no time to lie alone“
— Murasaki Shikibu