Quotes About Deception

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

It's very different to live with a mask.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.

The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Media is Munchausen by proxy.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.