Quotes About Deception

People have mastered flattery to the point that it has become a new street language.

People will cheat you because they've found a great replacement. Same thing for trust, nothing is complete or eternal in this world.

The corrupt leader does not care about the morals or ethics of life. His senses have been blinded by greed and self-interest.

The devil himself is not inspired. He's the master of imitation, I don't think he can succeed in inspiring anyone too.

The inspiration for writing has become so deceptive, but putting everything you've said into practice is where the burden lies.

The main enemies of science are facts and common-sense.

The so-called "innocents" are still wearing the skins of sheep to cover their evil intentions. Thus, we must avoid flatterers at any cost, so as not to become their victims.

The truth about corruption is that it's everywhere, even there where you imagine to be living in a paradise land.

The truth does not hurt, but it cures the disease of lying.

The veil of illusion cannot be overcome by mortals.

They say the truth always hurts, but I believe that lies hurt more.

To tell a lie is to recognize that all truths are half-truths. There can be no pure truth or lie, they are identical twins who cannot be separated.

Trust is similar to love, it is easily broken to one's advantage.

You can fake anything, but not happiness.

You can still get away with the speech, but the face reveals as much as it conceals.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

In the Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, the reader tries to reconstruct the past through participants and witnesses to that past, but what results is a blurred, ambiguous fiction within another fiction that recounts past events in accord with individual perspectives and interests. In this case, reality becomes fiction not only because the novelist fictionalized it but because the acts of remembering are so deformed or willfully mendacious that it is itself a fiction.

Things aren't always what they seem, are they?

Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

When the women went to the tomb they met someone else and in the half light they thought it was Jesus himself. Answer: they would have noticed soon enough.

The first thing that is missing from the usual line of thought, then, is any attempt to show how Paul deals not just with "sin" itself, but with the idolatry that lies behind it and the ensuing loss of "glory.

The voice of Satan is often hard to recognise precisely because it appears so frequently as the voice of common sense, of prudence, of reason.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.