Quotes About Deception

he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

One thing i hate about being smart is that you notice everything even when someone is trying to fool you.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

History would be far different if we did not tend to hear God most clearly when we think He is telling us exactly what it is we want to hear

I had learned from my own experience not to be surprised when a man lies about sex.

Marx's dream of a workers' paradise had degenerated into an Orwellian nightmare; conformity was the highest good, informants kept watch on every block, whole countries lived behind barbed wire, and governments insisted that down was up and black was white.

Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.

the Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible.

whole countries lived behind barbed wire, and governments insisted that down was up and black was white.

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it." McCarthy's

Henlein was motivated less by Nazi ideology than by the lure of power and fame. His skill as a politician stemmed from his gift for lying with apparent sincerity

Most of us lived through the years when spam threatened to destroy e-mail. Today, democracy is being weakened by lies that come in waves and pound our senses the way a beach is assaulted by the surf. Leaders who play by the rules are having trouble staying ahead of a relentless news cycle and must devote too much effort trying to disprove stories that seem to come out of nowhere and have been invented solely to do them in.

Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so. "Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it." McCarthy's career shows how much hysteria a skilled and shameless prevaricator can stir up, especially when he claims to be fighting in a just cause.

By asking questions based on a lie, it makes the lie a central part of national conversation.

When acquaintances met him on the road, Wen said he couln't stop to discuss the Communists or Nationalists, Stalin, Truman or the weather, because he was composing a six-character eight line regulated verse in his head, and any variation in his path wuld push the words out of order. It was a lie. In fact, he was empty of poetry a d afraid of words.

Hypocrites can be very pious

If spoken sincerely enough, and he now spoke most sincerely, lies became truths to the people hungry to hear them.

It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

There is no honour in betraying your friends.

Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.

He was no husband, scarcely even a friend. He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.

Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.