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Quotes About Deception

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.
~ R.L. LaFevers
I'm not very good at lying.
~ Ruth Wilson
Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.
~ Veronica Roth
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
~ Voltaire
The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.
~ Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
~ I. F. Stone
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
~ Davy Crockett
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.
~ James Jesus Angleton
If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.
~ I. F. Stone
The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.
~ Bernard Madoff
We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.
~ Isa Gambar
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.
~ William Rees-Mogg
All governments are lying cocksuckers.
~ Bill Hicks
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
~ William Henry Harrison
If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.
~ Robert Higgs
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
~ L. Neil Smith
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
~ Andrew Napolitano
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive
~ Stefan Molyneux