Quotes About Deception

The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.

Deixe para trás suas ilusões. Elas são pesadas demais.

It's much more important for them to know who in their band hates whom, who is sleeping with whom, who is honest, and who is a cheat.

green monkey, for example, has been observed calling 'Careful! A lion!' when there was no lion around. This alarm conveniently frightened away a fellow monkey who had just found a banana, leaving the liar all alone to steal the prize for itself.

That's why counterfeiting money has always been considered a much more serious crime than other acts of deception. Counterfeiting is not just cheating – it's a breach of sovereignty, an act of subversion against the power, privileges and person of the king. The legal term is lese-majesty (violating majesty), and was typically punished by torture and death.

It's relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don't really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. But why is it important? After all, fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting.

Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory

to plunder, slaughter and robbery they give the lying name of empire;

they make a desert and call it peace'.

History's Biggest Fraud

That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.

The next time someone whines that baseball doesn't have enough action, you can do two things: first, explain the planning, strategizing, calculating, and deception that place before every pitch. "Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: "Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

I am waiting to plunge down, to shatter and crash, roar and boom, to bury your trail, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass!

Like an arrow sprung from a bow Betty flashed past the Colonel and out on the green. Scarcely ten of the long hundred yards had been covered by her flying feet when a roar of angry shouts and yells warned Betty that the keen-eyed savages saw the bag of powder and now knew they had been deceived by a girl.

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

As the sun is above all clouds, the truth is above all lies. When the sun appears, the truth will become visible.

Don't let the view gives you a wrong vision

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

How many times had people made that very same mistake with me? So often I'd almost come to rely on it as part of my camouflage.

Kada neko do?e sa namerom da ti nešto ukrade, on prigrabi šta god mu staviš nadomak ruke, makar i majušnu stvar.