Quotes About Deception

Mohamadans are certainly famous as liars, and the falsehood of Mohamad has been transmitted to his followers in a measure unknown in other religions.

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.

Terrorism" is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by "the enemy", and from which one's own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.

Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. —Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

If people with good reputations are a resource for whom others compete, this leads to all the dirty tricks that people use against one another when they are competing for something of value. One such move is to "poison the well," to destroy the perceived value of the resource. When the resource is a person's reputation, some individuals will spread malicious gossip to destroy or damage it (Roland Barthes described this as "murder by language").

We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.

It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.

The devil is God's ape!

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

Satan's greatest fear is that you would believe what God said about you.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.