Quotes About Deception

I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap.

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.

He was starting to realize that maybe he didn't actually know the difference between trusting people and just pretending to trust them while bracing for the betrayal.

No, I impersonated my client. My imaginary client. That I impersonated." I was caught in a loop for a second there.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

I suggested Target Four from the Lalow, who had all the characteristics of a human who could be talked into doing anything.

As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.

Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare. (There had been a whole episode about it on Sanctuary Moon.)

I knew Amena well enough by now to recognize she was feigning polite interest to disguise horrified interest.)

lure humans in with promises of room privacy so it could record them in the public spaces.

I would have either disposed of the body so it was never found, or made it look like an accident." Indah frowned, and Aylen's brow creased, and they exchanged a look. Eyeing me, Indah said, "How would you dispose of a body so it wouldn't be found?" I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

In Naked Lunch, the emperors not only have no clothes, they prance through the pages as simians and purple-assed baboons.

Its continued illegality was proof that lying and/or stupidity was a cornerstone of government policy.

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

The Bible warns about religious transformations that may appear good and therefore deceive many: 'For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.' (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)

Mundus vult decipi. The world winks at dishonesty. The world does not call it dishonesty.

there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire. Not

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

A parallel imperative cause for accepting the message was the Messenger himself, a man who was, they were certain, too full of truth to deceive and too full of wisdom to be self-deceived.