Quotes About Deception

how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it.

The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.

In 2017, the American president averaged six lies a day. The next year it was sixteen, the following year twenty-two. In 2020 he told on average about twenty-seven lies a day.

The second mode is shamanistic incantation. As Klemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon "endless repetition," designed to make the fictional plausible and the criminal desirable.

Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you.

The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. The president does this at a high rate and at a fast pace. One attempt during the 2016 campaign to track his utterances found that 78 percent of his factual claims were false. This proportion is so high that it makes the correct assertions seem like unintended oversights on the path toward total fiction.

The greater and the more obvious the lie, the more his subjects demonstrate their loyalty by accepting it, and the more they participate in the great sacral mystery of Kremlin p

Kierkegaard: «Ci sono due modi di farsi ingannare: uno è credere in qualcosa che non è vero; l'altro è non credere in qualcosa che è vero». Poi

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

He was formed for the ruin of our sex.

Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I'm being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It's true—rhyme's a completely bankrupt device. It's just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolf from a man if he keeps his chin up and his teeth clean.

Love is Venemous

it's tempting to start universities and build hospitals when you want to put a little gloss on your life as one of the greatest thieves in American history.

All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present.

Tom Junior invented the story that his father had won $750,000 in the California State Lottery. There was no lottery 'win' but Thomas did give Tom Junior money to start a flower shop and bought Samantha a car.

a 'dodgy politician' and a 'cynical manipulator'. 'He's clever enough to deceive people without them knowing it

Whatever he thought he was, it was painfully clear he was not.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way.

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.