Quotes About Deception

LE MYTHE DE SISYPHE is dense, epigrammatic, and of a deceptive clarity. It looks like a short essay, without technical jargon, cryptic sometimes to a fault. In it, Camus spoke of the world, history, and of his life.

È la vita. A volte credi che due occhi ti guardino e invece non ti vedono neanche. A volte credi d'aver trovato qualcuno che cercavi e invece non hai trovato nessuno. Succede. E se non succede è un miracolo. Ma i miracoli non durano mai

Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

Only a fool can't be fooled.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

When people say perhaps its cause theyre lying. Either they dont believe the thing theyre saying, or they do believe it only they dont want to admit they do.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie.

Each side, hypocritical enough to pretend that it lives up to its own hype, is equally insistent that the other side's worst is truly all that it is. American political advertising is sinking slowly toward a level worthy of Soviet propaganda.

Jean Jacques Rousseau was at least right about this: better to face up to one's chains than to deck them with flowers and pretend they are not chains." ? Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future

Truth is dead, and everything is relative at best and at worst a matter of the will to power. Nothing is what it appears to be. If truth was once the stated goal of intellectuals, it is now easy to read between their scholarly lines and see the petty egos and the dirty ambitions behind the lofty aspirations for truth. Truth is finally undecidable, as the postmodern philosophers express it. At best, truth is simply the compliment you pay to sentences that you happen to agree with.