Quotes About Deception

We have to think we have choice otherwise we might realise we live in a dictatorship that is only decked out to look like freedom.

Obama is so crooked it is a wonder he can walk straight.

Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.

Showing emotion was bad. Unless it was fake, then it was okay.

it is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them'.

If they reject that truth, however, they cannot expect to understand more, and in fact, they will lose the truth that they have. (See Romans 1:21-28.) If they do not actively believe and love truth, they are subject to deception. (See II Thessalonians 2:10-12.)

The human brain has a deceptive habit of filling in missing information and ignoring new information that doesn't fit the expectation.

as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie.

This was Khalil's doing, and Josh's, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her.

felt this way, robbed

Life often looks its best from a distance.

Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that.

Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections.

Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence.

He might be quick to smile and adept at handing out compliments, but his smile never reached his eyes.

I'm lying. He tasted the words. If it's true that I'm lying then I'm telling the truth…The

something that is called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.

You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.

De pronto comprendió que todos aquellos meses en que se había mostrado tan «activa» eran tan sólo una mentira. Había que mentir para poder vivir aquella muerte lenta, o si no, uno se moría durante todo lo que le quedaba de vida.

Nor should it be assumed that machines are not capable of deception. On the contrary, the criticism "that a machine cannot have much diversity of behaviour is just a way of saying that it cannot have much storage capacity.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

The story this book tells is about the people who made our world; then the people who realized there might be a problem; then the people who lied about that problem.

believe you have struck upon the problems of conspiracies. There are men who wish to keep you from uncovering the truth about this particular matter, but there are others who are only privately villainous and have their own little truths to hide. When you confront a conspiracy it becomes monstrous hard to distinguish between wretched villainy and ordinary, common lies.

The adults as a rule came into the slave-sticks from treachery, and had never been slaves before. Very often the Arabs would promise a present of dried fish to villagers if they would act as guides to some distant point, and as soon as they were far enough away from their friends they were seized and pinned into the yoke from which there is no escape. These