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Quotes About Deception

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.
~ Arthur Koestler
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
~ Voltaire
My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.
~ Dennis Hopper
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
~ David Icke
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
~ T. S. Eliot
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.
~ Revilo P. Oliver
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
~ Ilka Chase
History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Oscar Wilde
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
~ Voltaire
We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.
~ Margaret MacMillan
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
~ John Coleman
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.
~ John Coleman
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
~ Umberto Eco
All history is a lie!
~ Sir Robert Walpole
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
~ Nick Turse
History - the devil's scripture
~ Lord Byron
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.
~ Ron Paul
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
~ Matthew Arnold
History is the devil's scripture.
~ Lord Byron
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
~ Mary Elizabeth Lease
Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!
~ Milton Berle
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
~ Archibald Cox