Quotes About Deception

To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous

La memoria è lo specchio degli inganni

Yo era el único que no tenía tuberculosis. Fingía padecer una afección cardíaca. Vivíamos en unos años en los que era preciso estar en posesión de una de estas dos cosas: medallas o enfermedades.

Cuando se trata de satisfacer al corazón, ningún vicio estaba a la altura de la hipocresía

Bueno, todos los pacientes son, en cierto modo, unos mentirosos. Vienen a mi consulta porque sus mentiras les hacen sufrir. El paciente que domina el arte de la mentira acaba siendo víctima de una enfermedad más grave. Pero piensa que aquel que paga puntualmente sus honorarios no nos engaña.

The skinned neck, draped gracefully on the floor, seemed to be wearing a cat mask. The cat was only an exterior, life had posed as a cat.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

Democracy is based on Abraham Lincoln's principle that 'you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time'.

Some fake news lasts forever.

When you escape the matrix the only thing you discover is a bigger matrix.

The problem with evil is that in real life it is not necessarily ugly. It can look very beautiful.

The fact is, it's not a deception, but rather a tribute to the amazing abilities of the human imagination. What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This trust is the sole backing for most of the money in the world.

A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.

great power inevitably distorts the truth.

Truth and power can travel together only so far. Sooner or later they go their separate paths. If you want power, at some point you will have to spread fictions. If you want to know the truth about the world, at some point you will have to renounce power.

If you want power, at some point you will have to spread fictions. If you want to know the truth about the world, at some point you will have to renounce power.

What will be the fate of all these lawyers once sophisticated search algorithms can locate more precedents in a day than a human can in a lifetime, and once brain scans can reveal lies and deceptions at the press of a button?

authentic realities can be manipulated by algorithms and TV cameras but rather that authenticity is a myth.

Democracy is based on Abraham Lincoln's principle that "you can fool all the people some of the time, and some people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

the world manipulates you, in the end you realize that your core identity is a complex illusion created by neural networks.

Abraham Lincoln said you cannot deceive everybody all the time. Well, that's wishful thinking. In practice, the power of human cooperation networks depends on a delicate balance between truth and fiction.

People think that this political revolution or that social reform will make them happy, but their biochemistry tricks them time and again.