Quotes About Deception

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.

Satan can do nothing about God's unshakable kingdom directly, but only indirectly through human infirmity and rebellion. His way of doing that is to persuade, and to tempt, and to deceive humanity.

we see a clear pattern: Satan's constant deception of human beings.

Satan, then, is God's primary target, for he is the one who bears the primary responsibility for all that is wrong with the world.

He does so by deceit.

Jesus referred to him as "a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44 NRSV). Indeed, his whole kingdom is based on lies; he works by deceiving.

Satan uses not only our desires to deceive us but also our fears. Fear that we will not get what we desire can provide the motivation for actions that cause so many of our problems.

Satan is our chief enemy, and his primary target is our knowledge of and trust in God.

Whether the perpetrator is acting under direct satanic sway, or indirectly in the way that all sin can be ultimately tied to satan's province, a certain degree of deceit and subtlety can be assumed in all sexual abuse.

Believe it or not, many Christians can make these statements with a straight face.

An idea does not need to be true in order to be believed, and the same could be asked about any other myth: Santa Claus, William Tell or Zeus.

the translators of the NIV and the Living Bible and other evangelical apologists have dishonestly tampered with the meaning of scripture, using a phony argument (a phone argument!) in order to deceive the readers and disguise an embarrassing discrepancy in their so-called "holy book.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

So dark the con of man.

I'm sure you despise me," she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes. "Despise you?!" Langdon exclaimed. "I don't have the slightest idea who you are! All you've done is lie to me!" "I know," she said softly. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to do the right thing.

And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.

The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving people for years, he reminded himself. It's what you do.

Since the days of Michelangelo, sculptors had been hiding the flaws in their work by smearing hot wax into the cracks and then dabbing the wax with stone dust. The method was considered cheating, and therefore, any sculpture "without wax"—literally sine cera—was considered a "sincere" piece of art.

Hoy en día las noticias falsas tienen tanto peso como las verdaderas".

Silenzio! Será mejor que escuche. Durante dos milenios su Iglesia ha dominado la búsqueda de la verdad. Ha aplastado a sus opositores con mentiras y profecías funestas. Ha manipulado la verdad según sus necesidades y asesinado a quienes descubrían cosas que no convenían a su política. ¿Le sorprende acaso ser el objetivo de hombres ilustrados de todo el globo?

extralimitarse»: una técnica de interrogatorio inventada por los primeros romanos para arrancar confesiones a delincuentes que sospechaban que mentían. El método era de una sencillez engañosa. Exponer la información que uno quiere que se confiese. Después alegar algo peor. El objetivo era darle al oponente la oportunidad de elegir el mal menor, en ese caso la verdad.

Fake news now carries as much weight as real news. - Diego Garza