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Quotes About Deception

the best lie is one that is wrapped around a core of truth.
~ Michael Scott
The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.
~ Michael Scott
The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime." "What's that, O'Brien?" replied I … "Why, Peter," rejoined he, "it's the stuff they feed fools on." —P. Simple, Marryat
~ Michael Shermer
The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies, and in the end isn't that the real truth? The answer is no." No squared. The postmodernist belief in the
~ Michael Shermer
Photographs and videos are often misperceived and can be easily doctored, and lights in the sky have many prosaic explanations: aerial flares, lighted balloons, experimental aircraft, helicopters, clouds, swamp gas, or even the planet Venus, which, if you are driving on an undulating highway away from city lights, really does appear to be a bright light following your car.
~ Michael Shermer
he saw her as she was—a hideous phantom of the corruption of the ages.
~ Unknown
Lies emerges when control is unreachable
~ Michael Strong
Covering the truth is placing blindfolds over the eyes of christ
~ Michael Strong
It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better.
~ Michael Swanwick
Uzun vadede illizyonlara ba?l? kalmak, gerçek olgularla yüzle?mekten çok daha tehlikelidir. Bohm
~ Unknown
There is nothing wrong with appearances, so long as we realize that that is what they are (this will always be a leading motif in Nietzsche's work).
~ Michael Tanner
the 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.
~ Unknown
People always say they want to hear the truth, but they really don't
~ Michael Thomas Ford
Where's the skill in throwing a hook loaded with tempting bait into the general vicinity of lots of perpetually hungry creatures with brains the size of mustard seeds? You might as well go to a playground, scatter Reese's peanut butter cups around, and club to death the first four year old foolish enough to approach, believing innocently that such treats are readily available in nature.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
Lisa, who told Griffin, that when Greg returned calls he sometimes ran the hair dryer near the phone and said he was on a private jet. Griffin kept this to himself because some people are so creepy that even to know this about them is a sign of dangerous proximity to contamination.
~ Michael Tolkin
There was no happenstance news, in Trump's view. All news was manipulated and designed, planned and planted. All news was to some extent fake—he understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the "fake news" label. "I've made stuff up forever, and they always print it," he bragged.
~ Michael Wolff
There was a plot against him.
~ Michael Wolff
Men who demand the most loyalty tend to be the least loyal pricks,
~ Michael Wolff
he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),
~ Michael Wolff
Bannon was, once again, gobsmacked. "When Ivanka and the Mooch can talk the commander in chief of the United States into thinking that people will believe that you had a double negative problem, you've left the Cartesian universe.
~ Michael Wolff
This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the "fake news" label. "I've made stuff up forever, and they always print it," he bragged.
~ Michael Wolff
All news was to some extent fake—he understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the "fake news" label. "I've made stuff up forever, and they always print it," he bragged.
~ Michael Wolff
Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump's hard-core base.
~ Michael Wolff
the president was likely a fool and certainly a liar.
~ Michael Wolff