Quotes About Deception

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.